• A Cool Dude@lemmy.mlOPM
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    5 months ago

    Preventing people from interacting with whole instances is the ultimate form of censorship. Deleting comments is nothing compared to literally deleting all the users from one instance.

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      5 months ago

      You can always get an account on an instance you can’t see from your main

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, so .world should stop complaining about censorship when they are the #1 censorship instance.

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      Well yeah, but it stops people on other instances seeing deliberately biased comment sections. Effectively disallowing discussion about China bad and other issues on many major posts. If you defederate it forces people to make new posts and not use the compromised ones.

      It’s like if we had an alt-right instance regularly getting on the front page, then banning LGBTQ+ discussion on any of those posts, and only allowing bigoted opinions through