Post AX6VzcsTOfRDdSQTFQ by ellesaurus@toot.lgbt
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(DIR) Post #AX6Vzbh5nUjxxs5rs0 by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-06-26T20:19:04Z
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Not that anyone gives a shit about my opinion, but I for one think wielding the fediblock should be done reluctantly and only with due cause of clear risks to your user's safety. I'm absolutely anticapitalist as hell, but if I'm administrating a server, I'm not going to wield the position of trust that my users have placed in me on my own personal ideological causes. I'm providing a service to them. I'm allowing them a place to safely share themselves and to communicate with others who are sharing themselves. If they want to share their content with Meta, I don't think it's my place to tell them they can't. So long as Meta and Meta's users aren't demonstrating a clear and actionable risk to my users, they can do whatever they want to - not my circus, not my monkeys.
(DIR) Post #AX6VzcsTOfRDdSQTFQ by ellesaurus@toot.lgbt
2023-06-27T02:44:53Z
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@JessTheUnstill The reason why I'm willing to proactively state that we'll be blocking any meta instances is that we already know in advance that the moderation policies of meta are inadequate at best. Any server that behaved like facebook or instagram would be defederated. I think it's a disservice to our users to expose them to harm before we're willing to act.That said, every instance is different, and what's best for our users isn't necessarily best for everyone, and that's fine.
(DIR) Post #AX6VzdfkRSqy6HTp3I by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-06-27T03:26:45Z
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@ellesaurusI see Meta like the McDonald's of social media. It's never going to be GOOD food. And yes, they're so big that some of their stores are going to inevitably be shitty and give you food poisoning, or you might get mugged and stabbed there. But that's kinda the law of large numbers when you hit that scale - some percentage is going to be shit. But for the most part, you can walk into a McDonald's and most of the time you're going to get something of a known quantity. A locally owned and run restaurant might be amazing, it might be the local Nazi Bar that serves you roaches, you kinda don't know until you've actually been there.But the thing is, millions and millions of people, especially poor people, rely on McDonald's for their food. It's affordable, it's reliable, it's ubiquitous. I'm not going to be an elitist snob and say people who eat at McDonald's aren't worth being able to talk to me - they're just people too. It has to get to the level where I think that on average, the people who have eaten at McDonald's present MORE risk to me and my friends than a random unknown restaurant for me to put up the ban sign.
(DIR) Post #AX6cDdDtVaY4UCVVEO by ellesaurus@toot.lgbt
2023-06-27T03:37:39Z
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@JessTheUnstill I view the people who are here as the ones pushed out those spaces, like how gay bars become a necessity. It's fine that there's a cisheteronormative world out there, but as a proprietor, it's my responsibility to watch the door.We've had multiple signups from people who moved to our instance because they explicitly want a space that will not welcome meta, and I think they deserve that space. It's also fine if there are instances and people in the opposite position.
(DIR) Post #AX6cDdxykFPan84J3w by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-06-27T03:41:50Z
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@ellesaurusThat's fair and fine. But users can block instances too. It doesn't have to be the same block for everyone.I especially disagree with people saying "I'll block all instances that don't block Meta". That's just going to fracture the Fediverse for zero additional value or protection.