I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A
lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. It’s
been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s
say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, t...
Everything I hate is now tankie. We must stop this by getting them to censor what we think is tankie
These are obvious faults in the fed structure and can and should be addressed via server and client features. The fediverse concept is a technology in its infancy and it's allowed to stumble as it learns to walk.
They feel like the only tool to prevent this is defederation. We also have instance blocking server side, right? Is there an in-between feature that could work? Something weird like shareable instance filter lists. Or a "maybe" category - some "Enter at your own risk" flag an instance could set short of defederation?
I'm not here just because fuck spez etc, but because I think the fediverse will be a stepping stone to better tech to manage diverse populations, so I'm not really interested in fixing libs so much as having tools to better federate.