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censored? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by angrynomad@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find it ironic on a free speech platform that access to a community about censorship is censored https://exploding-heads.com/c/censorship

What exactly is wrong with this instance to be defederated? In browsing it, I see nothing hateful

Or did they defederate from this instance, so you cant view/post on it. Not sure if I completely understand how that works yet

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An environment where anyone can spin up an instance where they control member accounts and then post on other instances with impunity would obviously be an unusable hellscape of griefing and abuse. The only, ONLY, ONLY way a community can survive in these conditions is if they have power to censor the content that they syndicate. Indeed, that is the whole point of community groups vs just consuming raw Internet; the content has been curated (aka censored) according to some set of rules.

There are pure P2P networks that function the way you want. Go take a look and discover why no one is there.

[–] angrynomad@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Freenet still seems to be around. As I posted in my other comment here, I think Lemmy needs a client side censorship instead, giving users the option to hide what they don't want. Eventually this will become a mess of instances doing anything to prevent getting canceled, thus increasing censorship.