Hi all, thanks so much for your input on this post in regards to de-federation. I have read through every comment and have taken all perspectives on board. I think I have come up with my stance on the matter for the moment.
For now I wont be de-federating with any other instances or servers. I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to "leave the power to the users" and let them decide the content they wish to see. In regards to this I think it will be extremely important to educate people on how to block communities that they do not wish to see. If you all could assist me with that and help guide new users that would be much appreciated. I will be creating a post on this soon and will put a note in the sidebar about it.
I also am aware and agree that certain content has no place in peoples feeds and that they want nothing to do with it. I myself am one of those people. Therefore there are a few things that I will still strongly be pushing for.
Site admins are currently discussing what moderation tools that we think we need. And this is what I propose and hope to implement into VLemmy.
A mod/admin tool that allows me to block certain communities/servers from appearing in all/new/hot feeds while they will still show for users that are subscribed. This stops the unwanted propagation of harmful/unwanted content while not restricting access to it and allowing users to interact if they wish.
A user tool that will show the users what communities the admin/mod has hidden from showing up in the new/all/hot feeds and allow them to uncheck it for themselves if they wish.
I feel like this is a reasonable compromise and I hope that this will help give a balanced experience for all. Critiques, criticism, refinements, suggestions, questions, all are welcome in the comments and are much appreciated.
This is probably fine but I still worry that it gives too much control to the "admins" on what I can or can't discover...
Well, the great thing about the fediverse is that you can go register your user name on 10 different instances if you wish. If admins in one place are fucking up, you can just log in to different instance and not have to deal with it.
Not really viable solution until some kind of migration is implemented.
Registering in different instances shouldn't require migration as it would be separate accounts, no?
I suppose what is called migration refer to re-subscribing to the same communities
Sure, but you "lose" all your posts, comments, subscriptions. If you manage any communities, you have to re-appoint yourself as a moderator, etc. So while you can just move to any other instance and keep interating with everyone, if you care about keeping track of your posts/on going discussions it's impractical to switch.
I think this is a very small price to pay in just a few inconveniences, as compared to having server owners be legally responsible for all the contents their users subscribe to. Or having people to have to see gore and porn before they blocked all communities which provide that type of media.