I’ll be honest: that’s a shitty way of handling this. Making 20 accounts to view content from 20 different instances that don’t want to cooperate with one another defeats the purpose of all of this. If that’s the plan, the Lemmyverse or whatever it’s called is dead on arrival.
You seem to be thinking of instances like ISPs or something.
Instances are closer related to a house holding multiple parties in multiple rooms. People from other houses are welcome to join, but with the lack of moderation tools, if people from your house act like fools or assholes don’t be surprised when your house is collectively barred.
The only reason people are so upset is because they have misframed what Lemmy is in their heads as some libertarian wet dream with no authority whatever. There is an authority. It is each instance admin.
If I create an email service, a lot of people sign up to use it and after some time I tell them I will no longer deliver emails to gmail.com, would that be alright?
Isn’t this exactly how gmail treats a LOT of other email services? Email is a mess of spam and whitelists and is barely usable as a result, partially because there is no human moderation.
And they can leave beehaw on a full-time basis. Let the admins decide how they want to run their instances, and if users don’t like it, they can hop over to another. This is all a part of how decentralization is supposed to work. Of course it’s messy and inconsistent.
There are plenty of beehaw users who agreed with defederation. After all, they had to essentially write an essay to be allowed in at all. I’m not surprised there are users who are okay with defederating. And again, the ones who aren’t are free to make accounts on instances with open door policies, like shit or world. Beehaw admins probably prefer it that way anyway.
Did those users agree after the fact or were they asked first? If there was a vote and that’s what their users choose then I take back what I said. My impression was that there wasn’t any vote.
And the users on beehaw are free to create accounts on other instances if they want. Your prison metaphor is a bad one.
I’ll be honest: that’s a shitty way of handling this. Making 20 accounts to view content from 20 different instances that don’t want to cooperate with one another defeats the purpose of all of this. If that’s the plan, the Lemmyverse or whatever it’s called is dead on arrival.
The plan is to refederate after Lemmy moderation tools catch up to the needs of Beehaw.org.
Seems reasonable to me?
They are restricting their users freedom. But yes the users are free to leave.
You seem to be thinking of instances like ISPs or something.
Instances are closer related to a house holding multiple parties in multiple rooms. People from other houses are welcome to join, but with the lack of moderation tools, if people from your house act like fools or assholes don’t be surprised when your house is collectively barred.
The only reason people are so upset is because they have misframed what Lemmy is in their heads as some libertarian wet dream with no authority whatever. There is an authority. It is each instance admin.
If I create an email service, a lot of people sign up to use it and after some time I tell them I will no longer deliver emails to gmail.com, would that be alright?
Isn’t this exactly how gmail treats a LOT of other email services? Email is a mess of spam and whitelists and is barely usable as a result, partially because there is no human moderation.
It would be more similar to you blocking gmail.com from sending you messagess because thier users keep flooding your server with spam.
This happens every day. Unfortunately a small group of assholes ruined it for all of us until tools are available to deal with them.
Why would you do that?
Gmail users send a lot of hateful messages so I decide to cut off all communications with them.
This is a ridiculous comparison. E-Mail is a standard for communication. Lemmy is a social media. This is absurd. Social media needs moderation.
And they can leave beehaw on a full-time basis. Let the admins decide how they want to run their instances, and if users don’t like it, they can hop over to another. This is all a part of how decentralization is supposed to work. Of course it’s messy and inconsistent.
There are plenty of beehaw users who agreed with defederation. After all, they had to essentially write an essay to be allowed in at all. I’m not surprised there are users who are okay with defederating. And again, the ones who aren’t are free to make accounts on instances with open door policies, like shit or world. Beehaw admins probably prefer it that way anyway.
Did those users agree after the fact or were they asked first? If there was a vote and that’s what their users choose then I take back what I said. My impression was that there wasn’t any vote.