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We should do our absolute best to not become a siloed instance. I predict we will start seeing certain instances be almost inaccessible which will lead to their users migrating to more open instances. It's already becoming clear to me that certain instances will lose users over time if they continue actively segregating their instance from others.

Individual bad actors on other instances is not a good enough reason to defederate. If a troll is bothing someone they can be blocked/banned on sh.itjust.works. I don't expect instance creators to ban all trolls, it's not possible.

Defederation should be reserved for severe cases when another instance shows no interest in moderating. The two instances defederated right now are justified: one condones the denial historical events and actively censors opposition, and the other was condoning heinous illegal activies regarding underage individuals. These are two clear examples of where defederation makes sense.

Defederation should only be used as a last resort.

My previous post continues this sentiment from a couple days ago here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did I compare such a thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, I said that it is "limited to hentai" in the sense that there is no real-life underage pornography. There's no pics & vids of kids basically. And you said that you think that it's not "limited", because hentai is way worse than other types of such content, which made me think you were talking about hentai being worse than child pornography, to which I replied as I did.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok then why did you say it's not "limited to" then.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is my full comment again for you to read:

In my opinion I don’t see that as a limit, hentai can be even more fine tuned to give satisfaction to those who desire it. I don’t want to see it on any platform that I take part in even including www.lemmynsfw.com which has made it explicitly clear that they will not accept anything that even resembles such a thing. ANYTHING related to underage content within that context should be forbidden, it benefits no one and is demonstrably harmful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

K, so, I'm not a native English speaker, maybe that's the problem cuz I have no idea where I am misreading.

You say that they are not "limited" to underage hentai (implying that they are doing even worse things than underage hentai), and that's because hentai can be customized to their taste (no idea how this is relevant), that lemmynsfw won't accept underage hentai, and you don't want anything related to underage nsfw-ness.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a native speaker and I interpreted their comment the same way if that counts for anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thx lol, makes me feel a little reassured about my linguistic abilities 🙂