@PhenomX6 The ability to block an entire instance just because 1 user who's following 1 different user out of the thousands on a different instance has said "nigger" 8 years ago is ultimately what destroys the entire point of decentralization. I think if one day I find myself developing an alternative protocol, I'll just be the benevelant DICKtator for life of that project, and explicitely gatekeep instance blocking feature out.
As much as I'd like to take advantage of that by getting the soyful idiots to block us, as loli frog told me the other day, a hands off no rules and no censorship approach is a way better form of gatekeeping than trying to gatekeep with moderation, rules, and censorship.
Even better, 9/10 just pull in the same few lists of blocked instances. Including SPC, Baest, and more.
So when ecelebs like RMC join, turns out you can't follow them because they're using shit tier instances run by jannies because "oh cool this is a nice theme I think I'll join without reading the ToS".
One of the biggest issues that is going to be harming adoption of the fediverse is the e-mail problem, and who is enabling it.
By now it's well known what happened to e-mail. Google and pals basically control it now because essentially all the normies signed up for one service, and if you don't use Google or someone they approve all emails are sent to /dev/null to stop spam. There is a risk that someone like Google could make a big instance and get normies onto it and force them into it with defederation.
On one hand the biggest company to care about the fedi is Pixiv with Pawoo (now owned by a game publisher), but on the other hand there's already a defederation problem with instances adding other instances because they were told they're bad. Which means if you join an instance like SPC or FSE, you find yourself blocked from many instances which are just cargo culting instance blocks since they're not supposed to ask questions, just block the bad people to "protect" your users. Just like a few other cults, everyone else has to defederate them too or one click of "external source" means the illusion shatters...and you find out everyone online is actually talking shit about you.
This could happen if normies sign up for Mastodon.social or instances with janny problems as they force other instances into their janny pacts, and it's why the only way forward is to decentralize the fedi more.
I've been experimenting and I'm finding out which instances are letting posts go through, and which are lying about what instances they block with the SPARC some more.
As it turns out, an awful lot of Mastodon instances are lying about what instances they block because their visible blocklists are old as shit.
@Freefromfall@neatchee Simple: there's still user level blocking where individual users can decide what they consider to be "hate speech" or "inclusivity" like grown ups rather than an admin deciding it for everybody else (treating their users like children effectively).
Just find me any instance that claims to be "anti-fascist" and/or "promotes inclusivity" that doesn't block a massive amount of instances like a literal fascist and/or promoter of division. You probably won't even find one.
@ryo @PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com @neatchee I’m afraid I don’t follow your logic. How exactly does instance blocking destroy the point of decentralization with respect to social media? If a user doesn’t like the rules of one instance, they can move to a different instance with different rules, or better yet, start their own. Some communities choose to take a hard stance against hate speech to promote inclusivity, others don’t have that ideal at the forefront of their agenda.
@ryo@neatchee @phenomX6 the beautiful part about Mastodon is that, if you and other like-minded users don’t like something about an instance, nothing is stopping you from going somewhere else. Ultimately whether an instance is blocked or not depends on the behavior of its users and how they get along with users from other instances that may have a different disposition.
@Freefromfall@ryo new users hardly know that instance blocking is a thing let alone make the decision to move because of it
imagine your friend finally comes onto fedi and you can't talk to them because their instance defedded you because you refused to denounce some other instance that they have a beef with
@waifu@Freefromfall The vast majority of Masto is either Pawoo, or Baraag, or Free Atlantis, or Game Liberty, or the thousands of indistinguishable instances with the same cultish woke-left rules.
If you really want to use the whole selling point of "if you don't like it, move to somewhere else or make your own then", probably better to use "Fediverse" instead of "Mastodon". There's lots more variation among the Misskey and Pleroma instances, hell even the like 10 GNU Social instances have more variety than the thousands + 3 Mastodon instances.
@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall@neatchee >it's kindness when i joined the mastodon network, and learned that I was not allowed to see most of the network "for my own good", believe me I did not think my administrator to be doing me any sort of kindness at all
@neatchee@ryo@Freefromfall the fact that i can list at least ten instances on your list that no longer exist shows you just stuck someone else's list up yours without checking if the reasons on the list were justified, very responsible and kind of you there
like, absturztaube is one of the more chill instances out there and they're on your list lmao
but go off, janny. collectivism won't get you friends either, just people you have to babysit who will eventually eat your own :smug3:
@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall I'm not ever going to open my users up to seeing hateful ideologies on their TL (reactive blocking instead of proactive) just because Joey wants to talk to Bobby who is on a server that federates with f*ckj*ws.social. People can figure it out, they're not idiots.
@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com I'm progressive adopting more of a view that these large, centralized networks which block out everyone else are, ackshually, a "good thing" because they filter out and quarantine insufferable, pedestrian normies.
This recent wave of Twitter users joining the fediverse, however temporary their stay, has demonstrated just how damaging the mainstream normie or Western NPC idealogue can be to the native ecosystem here.
@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall Bro, they federate with kiwifarms and extremist instances. idgaf if their members are "chill". Yes, I pulled from prebuilt lists, because I'm an adult who doesn't have time to investigate every instance. I can always remove them later if people complain.
I'm done with this conversation. I don't even know why you care. Just don't join our server.
Gonna be looking into your server now, as having people like you around likely means I need to block ya'll too ;)
@neatchee@ryo@Freefromfall >taking other people's words at face value without checking yeah i bet you took the jabs too eh? when are you getting another booster
@neatchee@hakui@Freefromfall > still believing that the covAIDS exists > still believing the lethal injections are safe and effective, despite the massive amounts of evidence that objectively shows it's all poison and the so-called "dangerous conspiracy theorists" were right all along
@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH you called it a jab LMFAO. Yeah, I'm double boosted. My 5G signal has never been stronger, and Bill Gates called me personally to tell me to have fun on vacation in California.
Gonna go ahead and report you to your admins and if they don't care I'll be blocking your whole instance. You're pushing extremely dangerous conspiracy theories that are dangerous, and actually hurt people.
@neatchee@ryo@Freefromfall >Gonna go ahead and report you to your admins cry more jabbie your parents will be glad for the hush money they get from pfizer when you "die suddenly"
@neatchee@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall they're going to click view remote instance and then they find out that everyone is calling them names behind their back ?
@neatchee@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall But what if those "hateful ideologies" are true? What if your physical, social, and eternal spiritual survival depends on you hearing and eventually accepting those "hateful ideologies"? How would you know otherwise outside of attacking crude strawmen intended to keep you ignorant?
Oh who am I kidding. You probably cannot read this. :jahy_disgust:
@neatchee@urusai.social@hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info@ryo@social.076.ne.jp@Freefromfall@urusai.social Bro, they federate with kiwifarms and extremist instances.This isn't even protecting your users, that's just cutting off other people through guilt-by-association. If I federate with absturztaube, am I blocked? If someone federates with me and I federate with absturztaube, are they blocked? Are you going to block all the Japanese instances that don't follow western Fediverse drama?
@neatchee@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall Just to clarify, you’re nuking one of the most laid back and nicest instances simply because they won’t bend the knee and defederate from people you believe they should. Not because they or their users did anything, but simply because they won’t do what you want them to do. What an.. interesting.. perspective. :thinking_cirno:
@Freefromfall@ryo@hakui@neatchee Refusal to block an entire instance is not endorsement of the actions of members on that instance. My point remains. They’re being blocked merely for not conforming and submitting. Given it’s whoever owns it’s instance it’s their choice to make. It seems an unwise choice and merely following what the group think says, but again, their choice :thinking_cirno:
@Freefromfall@wolfie@hakui@neatchee What if instances federate with other instances simply because they don't defederate anybody and don't even care though? This is exactly what I meant with destroying the entire point of federation; just easily offended toddlers being mad at other instances federating with instances they don't like, regardless of them even caring or not.
This would mean that all the soystances will need to block every single non-English speaking instance and all non-western run instances altogether, because those are most likely not even aware of the whole Kiwifarms saga and neither will those instances ever care. I'm aware, but that's because I'm following some western people. But the instance owner here is probably not even aware of this at all, at least I think she doesn't know unless she read the article on gnusocial.jp about it.
So, does not even knowing a certain instance exists to begin with count as "willfully federating with a certain instance"? Reading the block logs on these soystances, it seems like the answer is "yes".
@Freefromfall@wolfie@ryo@neatchee i know you have no real membership in any social groups so you cling onto the "us vs them" mentality immediately but one adult concept you might want to learn soon is "neutrality". it's when people don't want to take any sides, and that doesn't mean they support either of the sides
but more often i've noticed new users don't even know instance blocks are a thing, let alone what instances are being blocked. that's not a very transparent way to run things
@wolfie@ryo@hakui@neatchee well it’s not a denunciation of the actions either. Choosing to associate only with instances that take that hardline stance is up to the owner of the instance. If users don’t like that the instance has taken that stance, those users should go somewhere else instead of disparaging genuine community members.
@Freefromfall@ryo@hakui@neatchee Up to a point that’s fair. Personally, I believe fragmentation of the fediverse is harmful to the overall goal. However, you are correct that a person could go elsewhere. From my perspective, for what that’s worth, it’s harmful to blanket ban instances and import mass block lists where the admin has little to no idea who generated the list, what criteria may have been used, whether those instances were truly bad in the first place and so on. To continue with mk.absturztau.be as an example, every interaction I’ve ever had with them has been nice and good. So, presuming you haven’t had a different direct experience with them, we’re back to them getting block based on nothing more than what amounts to a purity test and submission to an ideology of “guilt by association”. Is that fair? Is that right? Clearly for me, it isn’t. Of course, you’re free to run your instance however you like. I would just suggest that maybe actually investigating some of the blocks instead of just blindly importing them might be a good idea, you know?
@wolfie@Freefromfall@neatchee@ryo when you see the signs of fetal alcohol syndrome on the newly delivered baby, do you still hope they can become a doctor or engineer when they grow up?
@hakui@ryo@Freefromfall@neatchee Generally speaking, no, though I wouldn’t presume to know such in this case as I have no information on the subject :thinking_cirno:
@Freefromfall@wolfie@ryo@hakui@neatchee there is an interesting question here: who is the real extremist group? Is it the so called "extremist group" that warrants a "defed by association", or is it the group that tries to force you to abide by their rules or risk defed?
@Suzu@ryo@hakui@Freefromfall@neatchee That’s honestly a fair question. Though, I suppose the answer to which is also entirely defined by ones perspective
@Suzu@ryo@hakui@Freefromfall@neatchee I hesitate to use that particular word, as it’s value has already been substantially lowered these days, but the principle is solid
Freefromfall: "if you don't like the rules of the instance, you can go somewhere else." Also Freefrom fall: "respect other people's boundaries."
So, which one is it? Do you prefer each instance having their own rules (like in the first case), or do you prefer all instances to obey to 1 particular 3rd party instance's rules even if they disagree with these (like in the second case)?
Realisticly speaking, the latter is impossible, and very mentally unhealthy too.
@hakui@wolfie@ryo@neatchee you should look into the same thing kid. While you’re at it, another adult concept you might want to learn is called “respecting other people’s boundaries” .
@Suzu@wolfie@Freefromfall@hakui@neatchee@ryo Why yes we hate fascists because they do XYZ. Ah, you see, we can't be fascists because we define the term. It's ok that we do XYZ because we aren't fascists.
When dealing with people that have no moral foundation beyond "friend good enemy bad" (and often hold to that very loosely), pointing out hypocrisy won't help them or you in any way. May as well laugh and move on.
@Freefromfall@ryo@neatchee i'm afraid this isn't the case. you'll end up blocked because someone who got upset by something you boosted added you to a blocklist that got merged without review and circulated without as much as a look at who they are blocking
@TerminalAutism@ryo@Freefromfall@Suzu@hakui@neatchee@wolfie The leftist / anarchocommie narrative about the "pandemic" is the most puzzling thing out there. They used to hate "big pharma" like here https://inequality.org/great-divide/big-pharma-firm-brought-us-opioid-crisis/ and suddenly they worship it. They will complain all day long about evil capitalism making their magical "vaccine" expensive, but will never bother to question its safety or effectiveness - or any of the other COVID restrictions for that matter. Reading some of those anarchist websites is like a window into another world.
@digdeeper@TerminalAutism@Freefromfall@Suzu@hakui@neatchee@wolfie Because the pendalum has shifted. Leftists used to be the rebels against the systems while the rightists used to be the system. But now the left is the system whereas the right is rebelling, meanwhile the left still thinks they're the rebels, and now both sides are fighting and widening the gap rather than closing it like how it should be.
Probably then there is a little point of instances now. People coming into Fediverse are obsessed with creating communities.
People always tend to create the police and a government. Even on social platforms.
And it's always the same: “Come, join our community, only here you can be yourself and meet fancy people! We have cookies! <small><small><small>You're prohibited to <a_list_of_1000_points>, and we will judge not only you, who accepted this small text despite you didn't read it, but also those who are outside our instance</small></small></small> Here is your picture of a cat. Have fun! (*^‿^*) ”
So, probably, a direct connection to a person you like is the best.
> People always tend to create the police and a government. Even on social platforms.
It's something 99% of the instance owners eventually will do, unless it's a single user instance. I only won't see this happening with this instance, especially since here we have the "meh, I don't care" mentality towards moderation. An attitude you naturally get after getting banned from literally everywhere.
But still, I think the best way will remain to have your own website as your platform, XMPP, email, and IRC servers as the way to contact all the landchads, RSS or Atom feeds for "HEY, I JUST POSTED A NEW ARTICLE, NIGGER!!", perhaps a BBS (or imageboard, same thing anyway) would be nice.
This alone would solve so many problems, like the censorship of free speech/expression, deplatforming of people, woke infiltration, normies forcing their way into places that's clearly not made for them, smartphone addition and smartphone zombies, obesity, and many more.
And perhaps we still need something like Fedi and the millions of instances as a little middleground between Web 2.0's centralized dystopia and Web 1.0's decentralized awesomeness.
@digdeeper@Freefromfall@Suzu@hakui@neatchee@ryo@wolfie I heard them complain about it being expensive as well. Which is interesting considering that the governments that they support brag about it being "free", and they are all for the government paying inflated prices for their stuff.
The price is inflated by 20 times the amount of the cost of production. But there should not even be a single dose given of this stuff, so what does it matter? And the anarchocommunists ignore this.
There is an easier explanation, namely that they plan their conspiracies years in advance. See Event 201 but that had to be planned in itself, so the real start date was probably like 2017-2018.
@digdeeper@Freefromfall@Suzu@hakui@neatchee@ryo@wolfie Of course. But the point is, even by their standards, they still fail. They (the so-called "left") are fine with government paying inflated prices for everything else, so why not this?
And it's probably more inflated than that, because they had these things ready for a very long time. Apparently Pfizer was already testing them in 2017, way before the fake disease even "existed". And if you think about it, should it even be possible for them to produce two doses of anything for the entire world's population in such a small amount of time? And then they made even more! How many boosters are they up to now? 4?
And I heard before that they want people to take 500 fucking shots until 2030, so if that's true, it will get much much worse. Bill Gates talked early on about how it would be 10 shots a year, if my memory is correct.
@ryo@digdeeper@Freefromfall@Suzu@hakui@neatchee@wolfie The whole left and right thing is complete nonsense. A lot of people are in a cult, and they will stay on some imaginary "team" regardless of what it pushes, and no matter which "team" "wins", the people running the game win. Politics is basically just reality TV, to distract the masses. Anyway, the people resisting the system today, even having the exact same positions that they have today, would have been labeled as "left-wing" in the 2000s. Hell, a lot of people supported Trump for the same reasons that a lot of people supported Obama.
@digdeeper@Suzu@Freefromfall@TerminalAutism@hakui@neatchee@wolfie There are many different start dates, some people suggest 2012 at the London Olympics opening ceremony. Others suggest somewhere in the early 2000s at the Brazilian Olympics. Some others even claimed 1994 with some artwork at some airport in the USSA. Others point out that 9/11 was the start date. I even heard someone saying it started all the during the last great reset, or after the nazi's lost WWII.
But regardless of when the whole plan started, at least we can all agree that it was planned in advance.