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What's the point of federation? (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by user to c/lemmyworld

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What's the point of federation, when we will end up having large clumps of users in specific communites under instances, where the owners of the instance can censor information, and enforce their political ideological false authory over everyone. If somebody doesn't agree they can be banned without any valid reason. Federation is censorship resistant only to large government entities. We fail to realise that the issue with censorship is the owners and admins.

And yes, we can meke new instances that support our beliefs and that doesnt censor our speech, but then again we dont have an evenly distributed userbase. Having duplicate communities is cojnter intuitive anyways because it will confuse users. Lemmy is a failed project in my eyes unless they find a way to resolve these issues somehow.

Bad example but if i start a torrent, then the people who seed will own just as much of the torrent as i do. I'll be equal with the peers without any upper hand. It cant be taken down or censored. Thats the idea i had.

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[–] user -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is not a smart statement. Im sure you figure out why. Try to apply the logic to anything you dislike some parts of.

[+] MostlyGhost 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a lot of fucking attitude coming from a user of a community that puts extreme emphasis on being nice and welcoming to other users ^_^

He's asking a valid question and he is right to be concerned.

Considering I've read some of the conversations on the lemmy mod log between admins, they made it clear that number one, they will ban users for any reason they seem suitable, and number two, defederate with an instance and isolate the community so the users on that instance, cannot communicate with other instances anymore.

I think that pretty much proves his point.

Your immediate outrage and accusations that he wants to Reign to be a jerk without consequences not only confirms your complete and absolute 100% ignorance.

It confirms his entire point.

"Obviously online communities need moderation otherwise they'll become unusable cesspits"

Who the fuck even uses the word 'cesspits' ? You sound like a brainwashed psycho cult member right before they drink the suicide punch.

[–] user -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You must be really emotionally unstable geez. "If you dont like Android and have some issues with iPhones then dont use a phone (insert nerd emoji)"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't even bother trying to waste your time rationalizing with a person who clearly has a political bias and psychotic sense of self-righteousness.

These types of people are generally blissfully unaware of their own ignorance and hypocrisy.

Your post touch on very important points about Lemmy. And I'm glad you posted it. We need more people like you raising these questions.