Absolutely agreed. I hope that becomes a feature soon, I know it is or was being worked on.

Any word yet? This is the biggest thing I've been worried about in the Fediverse. Not everyone can host their own instance, and there's no way to know the one you chose won't up and vanish overnight.

I completely agree. Believe me, I get why the admins are making the choices they are. In the current situation of how the fediverse works, it'd be stupid not to act. I just hope that it's able to be addressed- no more proliferation of CSAM through duplication on every instance, better moderation, more control- so that defederation doesn't have to be used in these situations.

I literally did not use quotes. I'm very confused. Are you mistaking me for someone else? I will say it again, I'm very sincere. White supremacy (along with any type of racism) is fucking stupid. I used the term wrongthink because it goes both ways- lemmygrad would consider capitalism wrongthink.

I'd say that's fair. I understand that what I want is unlikely to come about, it's a somewhat extreme view, and due to Lemmy's current configuration, admins are on the hook legally for everything posted on their server. Something needs to change for defederation to change, and it's very likely that defederation won't change. I've only ever been expressing a concern of mine. Lemmy doesn't cater to my will- I'm not even a programmer, I couldn't do any of this stuff even if I had the power to do so. I just hope that it does change.

Trust me, I would if I could. It's a shame that I can't.

Uhh... what quotations?

I've already said, I'm being completely genuine. And it's why I said "in either direction", because lemmygrad defederates from stuff too.

Please read the rest of this thread to see how I deal with non-idiots.

It is a gung-ho way, but I understand why I'm being downvoted. People hear "I want to have the ability to view anything" or "I don't like being told what I can or cannot view on the internet" as "I want to view CSAM" or "I am actually a Nazi", which should result in an emotional reaction. It's just not what I'm saying.

That helped me to understand what you meant, thank you, but I guess I don't see this analogy as very accurate. A Nazi showing up at a bar and being asked to leave is not what I'm against- that's what moderation IS. What is more accurate here is that a Nazi shows up at a bar, and a completely separate group arrives at the same time. Since they arrived together, they are ALL made to leave, despite none of them controlling the Nazi's behavior. That's what defederation is like on that side, and the other is that I am told that I am not allowed to visit the Nazi bar. To be clear, I have no interest in visiting the Nazi bar, but my issue is- how do I trust that it IS a Nazi bar if I'm not allowed to visit? I've seen so many people called "Nazi" in the past ten years it blows my mind, and of them, only a tenth or fewer are what I would consider Nazis/neo-Nazis. I've been called Nazi in real life because I expressed my opinion to a friend that I was disappointed Ariel was cast the way she was. Do I hate black people? No, I just think redheads are hot and I was disappointed. Juvenile, absolutely, but worth being called "Nazi" by a passersby who overheard? This is obviously an exaggerated example, but I believe the point stands.

How on EARTH do you read that anecdote and come away with "Yeah he's a Nazi" and not "Man that person was an idiot and Nazi labels are used way too liberally"? Like actually how? Do you wear a helmet to bed?

I mentioned elsewhere, I don't have the ability to run my own instance. Mastodon also has user migration tools, making it much easier to start up a new account on a different instance. Lemmy does not. I'm also not even talking just about myself. There's been drama about large instances defederating from each other since I joined- which, to be fair, was only a few months ago, but it's also when the population exploded and defederation became a real concern. My main problem is the simple idea that, due to actions entirely outside of my control, large sections of the fediverse can just disappear for my account, forcing me to either accept the newer, smaller fediverse, or make a new account somewhere else that happens to federate with both my previous instance AND the defederated instance if I want a single account to view the same content I used to.

I'm unfortunately unable to host an instance. I wish I could, honestly.

I think so too, especially if and when users get the ability to block entire instances. That will prevent some of the defederation-for-wrongthink (in either direction, it doesn't matter), and as it matures, I think the "accidentally hosting CSAM" will be less of an issue as well.

Thank you for telling me what I want, I guess? There's a lot between "open" and "closed" internet. Defederation is certainly more towards closed than open, no? And I would prefer it to go the other way, that's all.

feddit.nl invites illegal content? Someone should let them know that, they're doing an outstandingly bad job at it if that's the case.

Two problems can exist simultaneously. I'm suggesting that something should be done about defederation, and the things that lead to it (like automatic image proliferation), because if defederation continues as it is, it will hurt user retention.

I don't host a community. At a basic level, I would like the ability to view (and I mean VIEW, not even necessarily interact with- I cannot force my interaction on anyone) the entire fediverse for myself. If other people want others to tell them which areas align with their views, they can join instances that block other instances from being able to participate. I just wish that didn't mean the defederated instance could no longer even view the blocking instance.

I'm legitimately unfamiliar with the term. I'm being very genuine. I'm not sure what you mean about the Nazi bar, either. I'm encouraging users to curate their own experiences. Any time they see a Nazi, they can figuratively erase that Nazi from their personal existence. If they see a Nazi bar, they can erase that too. I object to being TOLD, rather than deciding for myself, what bars are Nazi bars.

Each user can block other users. Moderators can block users. It can be handled the same way that other sites (yes, like reddit) do it. I'm also not opposed to defederation when it is essentially a single-user ban- for example, if there is an instance with no communities, no signup requirement, and has nothing but malicious bots- that's banning a bot farm, not "defederation" as it's commonly understood. But with something like this- where feddit.nl is actually a rather large instance- so many people are essentially being punished for absolutely no fault of their own.