Fair but this whole defederate from every group someone doesn’t like is getting tiring.
I agree. Since I don’t like lemmygrad, I just block their communities. That’s a tool built into Lemmy to do exactly that. Problem solved. Everyone whining at this point wants to foment drama and control the experience for everyone. That kind of authoritarianism doesn’t belong here. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The “marketplace for ideas” argument is a great concept until you’re in charge of moderating a server.
If you don’t want to deal with shifty servers, you block them, like you do with shitty people. If you don’t like the way the mods on your server are behaving, you can move to one that’s more aligned with your ideals instead.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”, or sites that deny massacres and other crimes against humanity and I don’t think that’s a bad take.
The power of the Fediverse is that you can actually set up your own server if you don’t like a particular one and still talk to others unless you give them reason to block you. On your own server you’re free to subscribe to both lemmygrad and beehaw, as long as you don’t break the rules of a particular community and deal with abuse reports appropriately.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”
I’m actually of two minds on this one
to give them the benefit of the doubt, a lot of “criticism” of China often boils down to sinophobia and a lot of Western internet users do not seem to be able to tell the difference
Nobody likes tankies. With good reason.
Fair but this whole defederate from every group someone doesn’t like is getting tiring.
Unless they sharing CP, let the market place of idea do its thing…
Tankies lose their edge lord bravado once you post xi pooh meme or askt hem about tianiamen square
I agree. Since I don’t like lemmygrad, I just block their communities. That’s a tool built into Lemmy to do exactly that. Problem solved. Everyone whining at this point wants to foment drama and control the experience for everyone. That kind of authoritarianism doesn’t belong here. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Is there a way yet to block an entire instance’s posts, or is that beyond what you can do as a user?
I have been wondering the same since the block function in the web version don’t seem to do anything.
The “marketplace for ideas” argument is a great concept until you’re in charge of moderating a server.
If you don’t want to deal with shifty servers, you block them, like you do with shitty people. If you don’t like the way the mods on your server are behaving, you can move to one that’s more aligned with your ideals instead.
I have absolutely no interest in dealing with people who think it’s okay for site moderators to remove any criticism of China because of “orientalism”, or sites that deny massacres and other crimes against humanity and I don’t think that’s a bad take.
The power of the Fediverse is that you can actually set up your own server if you don’t like a particular one and still talk to others unless you give them reason to block you. On your own server you’re free to subscribe to both lemmygrad and beehaw, as long as you don’t break the rules of a particular community and deal with abuse reports appropriately.
I’m actually of two minds on this one
to give them the benefit of the doubt, a lot of “criticism” of China often boils down to sinophobia and a lot of Western internet users do not seem to be able to tell the difference
A lot of criticism about China is just racists being racist, which should definitely be called out.
However, posts like this one describe policies that go far beyond that.
What marketplace? I thought this place was for free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas
You know what I was going to argue against Mill’s On Liberty and its bases for this idea but I really see no point in it. You have a nice day.