And hate speech is definitely not illegal in many places but should be, and banned by whatever means necessary, including defederation if it comes to this.
There are also technical issues that may need defederation e.g. bots.
I do not believe that free speech is compatible with social media. None of the social media platforms are public squares. They are all private. For instance, sh.itjust.works has the “no bigotry” and “be respectful” rules which disqualify us from being a free speech platform. Doxxing is, in and of itself, not illegal, and yet it’s not allowed even on Twitter. Most places are not friendly to porn, either.
I agree. And there are many like us. But we might have to bail and join a less triggered instance. But I don’t want to be in a right wing hell hole either. I just want to read people’s posts!
I will copy/paste the excellent starting point written by @captain_aggravated:
If I were to write such a standing policy for defederation, I think it would read something like this:
Admins of sh.itjust.works shall defederate with another instance immediately when that instance:
is operated for the purpose of hosting bot accounts for the purposes of spam, scams, denial-of-service attacks, or other traffic generally unwelcome or disruptive to the Fediverse.
is operated for the purpose of posting commercial advertisements to other instances.
is operated primarily for the purpose of illegal or harmful acts, such as sharing child pornography, human trafficking, inciting/facilitating acts of violence or terrorism, etc.
is operated primarily for the purpose of political extremism/radicalization to include rampant bigotry, racism, sexism, calls to violence.
is generally operated in good faith but some temporary issue such as a credential theft has deprived the genuine admins of control of the instance and problematic posts/communities/members are being created. The admins may defederate or refederate as needed to meet this condition.
Admins or members of sh.itjust.works may call a member vote in the Agora on the matter of defederating when another instance when that instance:
was historically operated in good faith but has more recently entered a state of low moderation; illegal/immoral/spam traffic is posted against the intsance’s own rules with no attempt to moderate.
is a very small instance operated by one or a few individuals to circumvent a ban if ban-worthy behavior continues.
A non-emergency technical issue arises, for example an instance starts sending garbled posts which fill feeds with nonsense, members may request temporary defederation until the glitch is resolved.
I think having an approach of de-federation where we decide guidelines and then depend on the admin staff to implement them on the individual instances is more sustainable than having to have constant vote threads about the topic.
Illegal content, places where people congregate to plan violence or doxing, etc.
This instance is not a ‘free speech zone’ and we have rules for people posting on communities here. I don’t think we should get in the habit of using de-federation as a downvote button for instances that have opinions that people find objectionable. The block button exists for that, it isn’t just a tool for passive aggressively winning arguments.
Are you not aware of previous discussions about this?
It’s getting kinda old tbh. Like, take the time to scroll a c/ before posting there, doubly so for this c/ which isn’t for random stuff like this to begin with.
If you don’t want to have the discussion again, just don’t. It’s 100% okay for a user to post a thread and keep the discussion going. It has no effect on you if you opt out.
It’s very weird to criticize fellow users for having discussions.
And this topic will never, ever go away. It’s a permanent fixture of federation.
You may have forgotten which c/ you’re in. The agora isn’t for random discussions.
While there’s going to be some repeat subjects, at the time I originally commented, it had just been brought up on this c/ maybe a day before. Which means that this post (at that time) was a duplicate that would split the discussion. Now, it turns out that the previous post had been deleted but the poster, and (had you scrolled down a bit) a mod had stated that they were going to link to it, but this would be the thread for that discussion since it was gone, and I expressed a lack of objection at that point.
The objection, when it was made, was purely because of the nature of this c/. You can’t clog up an instance functional c/ with repeats of a matter because that makes it impossible to have a cohesive discussion. If you have to bounce between multiple threads, the debate gets both unwieldy, and easy to lose track of.
But, even is it was a regular c/, a repeat of a subject every day is still excessive.
There was another discussion about setting guidelines for de-federation instead of voting for every single instance that someone finds objectionable. I was going to link it to the OP and lock the thread but it appears that the poster of the previous thread has deleted it, so I guess this gets to be the new one.
Why create another thread for a subject that’s been covered extensively over many threads already? 🤔 How funny that the only post history you’ve got is about your being pro free speech… Seems like a troll account to me!
Your posts are also all about banning baddies, and you’re more insulting than any of the anti-defed people I’ve seen. Constantly criticizing people for having the discussion in the first place. Toxic!
I also post on other, non political, communities if you look at my history (like Quebec’s), it just so happens that my subscribed feed includes The Agora and this instance’s main community and it’s the most active communities I’m subscribed to and the subject keeps coming back.
Why don’t you leave? Why do other people need to tolerate things for your benefit? It seems like if there is a particular kind of content the majority of your instance does not want to have around but that you still want to engage with, then the onus should be on you to leave right?
Because we’re deciding democratically how the instance is progressing and it seems like it’s heading the way we agree with and not the way OP agrees with?
I’m not offering advice? Did you read the rest of my comment? If the majority of users of an instance don’t want a certain kind of content around, then why should they be forced to tolerate it for the sake of a minority of users who want to enage with that content? Why is it not the minorities obligation to seek out that content if they want to engage with it and not the majorities obligation to tolerate it?
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