You choose what instance you are on. Quit the pseudointellectual whining. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrpants@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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No server operator needs to federate with you.
No server operator needs to tolerate things they don't want on their instance.
No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don't want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers' posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

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[-] meldroc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The people screaming about free speech for bigots & fascists seem to neglect the free speech of the instance owners and admins.

They're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Paying for bandwidth and servers. Donating their time to create the software, work out the kinks, and moderate the communities so we don't strangle each other.

From their perspective: Would you want to use your money and time to rebroadcast Nazism or similarly toxic ideology? Because that's what they're being asked, and most of them say "HELL NO!" When the chuds are demanding that these people rebroadcast such crap, it's like they're asking these admins to do a Hitler salute with them.

This is their space. They have free speech rights too. That's what curation is, free speech. You send a message by the choice of messages you rebroadcast or refuse to rebroadcast.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The people screaming about free speech for bigots & fascists seem to neglect the free speech of the instance owners and admins.

This is a pretty farcical argument, because the instance admins set things up specifically so that the instance users can discuss and vote on what the instance does.

this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023

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