They could defederate servers that don’t do exactly what they want and servers that are defederated might capitulate. The last frame is very possible and we’ve already seen it start to happen with thedonald on shitjustworks.

Edit: that said, I know the Donald comes from Reddit so it’s not the best example. But it’s an example of the method by which the last panel could happen.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ELI5 on thedonald please

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was a super bigoted alt-right subreddit that eventually got banned

Someone recreated it on sh.itjust.works and started posting garbage

The greater fediverse caught wind of it and called for sh.itjust.works to be defederated.

The sh.itjust.works admins got rid of TD (and the user, I believe)

I'm not sure, but I believe at least a couple of instances defederated sh.itjust.works for a bit before letting it back in once action was taken

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 0 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's not really what happened here. It was 1 guy who made a community. That 1 guy was banned and his community was deleted for breaking the rules (specifically rule 2, no bigotry). Just before he got banned, people on other instances were freaking out like we just had the entire population of /r/the_donald join up here when it was 1 troll who broke our rules.

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

people on other instances were freaking out like we just had the entire population of /r/the_donald join up here when it was 1 troll who broke our rules.

That same strategy can be used to police the fediverse. If policing is possible, then the last panel of the comic is possible.

[–] ConTheLibrarian 1 points 2 years ago

1 Troll who was getting their ass HANDED to them in the vote scores. It was genuinely cathartic to watch. They literally got run out of their own communities before admins banned them.