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What the hell happened with vlemmy.net?
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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was any of that expected?
if you set up a shop and the rules are "anything goes", the people that it will attract are people that were shown the door everywhere else. that's because unless they are able to set up their own place, they have nowhere else to go. i understand this is motivated by anti-censorship views, but there are beneficial, noncontroversial kinds of censorship. nobody seems to be clutching their pearls when spambots, pedos, impersonators or isis recruitment videos are banned. it's usually called "functional moderation"
i'm being charitable there and not assuming that it was weirdo instance from the get go. they should have however considered that scenario and maybe set up everything in a place that doesn't seem to particularly care about content they had, whatever that was
this, along with nazi bar scenario, seems to be a very good argument for swift and preemptive defederation policies
It's not that the people on vlemmy were "shown the door" everywhere else. It was merely the people who decided they wanted to choose for themselves which doors they would enter, and not be told by an admin they couldn't enter certain doors. The instance I'm on now isn't defederated with anything either, and if it ever does, I'll find a new one that doesn't. I don't like being told which parts of the internet I'm not intelligent enough to decide for myself about how I feel. I can curate my own feed by simply blocking communities I don't like, or by only subscribing to ones I do and browsing the Subscribed feed. I get burggit.moe and lemmygrad.ml and exploding-heads and all the other ones people don't like, and if I see a community on any of them I don't like, then it's MY job to block it from my view, not an admins. I respect those who would like a more curated experience and there are instances for that, but don't assume everyone who is in support of completely open federation is a pedo, nazi, socialist, fascist, or ANYTHING else. It just means they want to decide for themselves.
How is the uptime on feddit? I might switch.
I have yet to notice downtime, and I browse pretty often. It's pretty fast, too. I haven't noticed any major slowdown.