If I were Reddit or Facebook I would divide and conquer the Fediverse (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by pattmayne@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.

I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.

We didn't just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.

I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can't read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.

I don't want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.

The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.

Welcome to the Defediverse.

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[-] Master@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure this is what caused beehaw to defederate lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Several pro-reddit people posted to reddit (on a sub that is now private) about doing just that. It worked and took 48 hours or less for beehaw to defederate them. But there was a lot of discussion about the situation across several servers and it doesnt really seem to have worked to fracture the community other than isolating beehaw which already wanted to be fairly isolated to begin with.

[-] 227@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

Do you have a recommend server? I just joined the latter one, does that mean I won't be able to participate in certain communities?

The first thing I saw on this site was "you're a N*"** F***" which isn't a great sign..

I tried signing up to multiple different instances I guess? The first few were full. I'm new here and just want to make sure I'm at the right place, not loving that the first thing I see is pretty racist and homophobic

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

If you don't want to see any kind of offensive content, I recommend signing up to Beehaw. It's a self proclaimed "safe space". This means that they actively delete offensive content, they do not allow nsfw, and they defederate from any instance they see as a danger to this safe space.

You can also browse instances from join-lemmy.org and look at their blocked instances. If you see instances that block many or some major instances that are right wing or promote things you don't like, you'll know you found the right place that will disallow offensiveness in your feed. :)

[-] curlygirl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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