- No server operator needs to federate with you.
- No server operator needs to tolerate things they don't want on their instance.
- No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don't want to see.
Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.
Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers' posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.
Right, but there is no central authority to decide the best rules, so we get to live through the process figuring itself out. Go ahead and promote what you consider a good solution, but anyone bitching that this or that platform is inhibiting their free speech by not conforming to the process they propose is just part of the noise, not someone to be taken seriously in the discussion.
Sure. To be honest, anyone who brings up "free speech" when talking about reddit, Lemmy, whatever doesn't really understand free speech.
The only thing I personally was complaining about there was a knee-jerk collective punishment type of approach.
That's fair, I think the first instinct being to defederate is alow effort way of dealing with the issue. I don't necessarily have a better one with the sudden influx of people from platforms so utterly different that is basically a while new world and a while new sleep of malicious actors following the herd, but it still should be understood that it's up to the individual instance to react, not the people leeching off the goodwill of the people maintaining it and complaining the whole way along.