The point of the fediverse is decentralization, so it doesn’t really defeat the purpose. It’s what makes sure what happened on reddit and twitter doesn’t happen on the fediverse.
Some people want to be in a tightly controlled, highly moderated environment. Some people want basically no moderation, and many people are in between. The nice thing about decentralization is that each of those groups of people can have their communities without breaking the others, and depending on everyone’s tolerance for one another they can participate in each other’s communities.
This is common on the fediverse, and it sucks that some communities don’t want to be part of what the rest of us enjoy, but that’s their choice.
I’m vocally against defederation except in extreme cases, but I understand why communities that want to lock down and only allow voices they agree with even if I disagree with it completely. The key is to reward libre instances with attention in my opinion.
The point of the fediverse is decentralization, so it doesn’t really defeat the purpose. It’s what makes sure what happened on reddit and twitter doesn’t happen on the fediverse.
Some people want to be in a tightly controlled, highly moderated environment. Some people want basically no moderation, and many people are in between. The nice thing about decentralization is that each of those groups of people can have their communities without breaking the others, and depending on everyone’s tolerance for one another they can participate in each other’s communities.
This is common on the fediverse, and it sucks that some communities don’t want to be part of what the rest of us enjoy, but that’s their choice.
I’m vocally against defederation except in extreme cases, but I understand why communities that want to lock down and only allow voices they agree with even if I disagree with it completely. The key is to reward libre instances with attention in my opinion.