Did the admins poll the community about it? Why was such measure so needed? If the tankie content is so annoying why not let users decide what they want to see or not and what they want to block?
I don’t like that the admins want to censor the content I can view or not. You guys are not protecting us nor doing us a favor, you’re imposing your views over everyone else by limiting the information we are able to receive.
I don’t support the devs views or the views in lemmygrad, but this is a dangerous precedent.
I’ve read several of the “arguments” for blocking the instance and all I can see is a bunch of people talking about politics and arguing about “floods in the frontpage”. Well, let the user block communities if that’s the case, same way I’m already blocking communities I’m not interested.
I think the admins want to feel like Facebook moderation. I’d be OK with it if any instance repeatedly generated spam, security, doxxing or any other concern that couldn’t be solved by banning individuals, otherwise it’s just plain censorship.
I just don’t want the admins to use their power to decide what I can see or not. If this is going to be like this, I’ll leave for a better instance because I can see where this is going to.
So, a political thing? And why I’m not allowed to see denialist content? Am I a baby? You feel like a baby that needs parental control from admins?
Sorry for the hostility but that’s what this boils down to. Admin decisions over users. And I don’t care about whatever political/worldview controversy they use to base their abuse of power.
Thanks for pointing the obvious but this is about having a conversation. Users should not let admins impose their views and accept it as normal. That’s why subreddit mods where acting like tyrants.
Even if I create an acc in another instance and forget about this one, I raised questions. You guys are free to draw your conclusions.
Fair, but you don’t get to go into someone’s house and demand they act according to your rules.
If you want the change so bad, go to a different house or make your own.
What’s the line, though? No content should ever be moderated/removed? I’m sure there is a topic or viewpoint you have no interest in being inundated with that is fine for someone else. If there isn’t, that’s abnormal based on my personal experience.
Yes, I regularly block communities from my feed. It is my decision. I am not delegating this decision to the admins. What’s the line? I already mentioned: overall security, spam, legal issues, totally fine to me.
All I’m doing is to ask questions and express discomfort about the server owner restricting my access and you guys get all defensive
I think you not wrong but at the same time, you should look at the context here. Instances are being run by private people, not professional corporations.
I feel like you expect company level support here and want explanations why things are moderated a certain way. But this is up to the instance owner. You can ask why but if you don’t get a response, that’s basically your answer.
Good thing is, you can pick an instance where the moderator actually does respond to you and engages in discussions about why he did what he did. I love that we are federated.
I also know how to create an account in several instances. It’s not about technical issues, it is about the culture.
So someone who is donating their server for your entertainment should be forced to potentially be hosting terroristic comments and posts, child porn, you name it… And be put on govt lists and have a higher risk of being raised because people want to do whatever they want? Yeah…I’m perfectly fine with someone restricting stuff that can be considered extremist from their machine that were borrowing.
Not saying any specific instance is doing the stuff I mentioned above. More giving my 2 cents on why Its not an issue, especially since you can go to another instance and see everything anyways . These are not companies doing this stuff, it’s individuals with actual lives, not some board of directors who want more money.
The stuff they post gets put into the servers in your instance, if its illegal the instance owner might be liable, and lemmygrad stuff is straight up illegal in many places genocide denial for example, also their brigading is very annoying and hard to moderate.
That seems reasonable if that’s the case. In the future I’d like to be part of a community where if admins take such decisions bordering censorship, they have a public log explaining why they do it. Legal, hosting issues, spam, are all valid reasons to me. I guess at this size it’s also reasonable to lack such protocols, but it’s important to have them.
