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@jb55 tags: free specech
Woooh we did it
@benthecarman @jb55 Call me naive, but a few years ago I would never have thought to ever hear "free speech" in a negative context. It's a truly terrifying development.
@sebx2a @benthecarman it's pretty wild
@jb55 Welcome to the bright side? Idk.
@jb55 internet can use more segregation to be honest.
@jb55 Lol....we're all raaaaaaacissssst!! 🤦♂️
@jb55 what does that actually mean?
@LadyAnarki many instances use this to block whole instances. it's like big tech deplatforming but worse.
@LadyAnarki so anyone who uses this blocklist for their community won't see any toots from us.
@jb55 @LadyAnarki Good! They can HFSP. lol
@jb55 Seems like there's some fun groups in that list lol
@jb55 @LadyAnarki How is it worse?
@kekcoin @LadyAnarki worse in the sense it creates more echo chambers, fediverse as a whole is better of course in the long run
@jb55 @LadyAnarki Hmm, I don't see the creation of echo chambers as a problem per se - as long as people create their own echo chambers rather than them being imposed.
@jb55 @kekcoin @LadyAnarki I wouldn't say it's worse even in that respect, since people on Twitter would tend to only follow those they agree with and block those they don't anyway, creating echo chambers within the platform. We basically have the same thing here, but without the possibility that you get removed from the whole platform.
@alan8325 @kekcoin @LadyAnarki it's just harder to navigate when you are first getting oriented to the fediverse. its like what war faction am I joining and will I be able to talk to my friends on other instances.
@jb55 @alan8325 @LadyAnarki To be fair, having multiple accounts is an option, a lot of apps even support it.
@kekcoin @alan8325 @LadyAnarki true! good point
@alan8325 @jb55 @LadyAnarki That last part is key. And hey, blocking entire communities at a time can be useful too! Some instances are very spammy and I'm glad I can just filter out entire swathes of bot accounts in one go.
@kekcoin @jb55 @LadyAnarki And a public block list run by communists, like FediBlock, could have the Streisand effect of giving the politically opposed a convenient list of instances to look for friends in.
@jb55 Wait what we weren't already? They're a bit slow aren't they?
@jb55 this probably means we're doing free speech right
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Out of interest, do we know which instances block us?
@j12d its a good question, I'm not sure if there's a way to check this.
@j12d looks like its listed on mastodon about pages https://mastodon.social/about/more
@jb55 proud moment indeed
@jb55 I wouldn’t celebrate being on a hit list for anti-free-speech extremists.
You can bet criminal hackers will attack
@jb55 "The idea of this project is to provide a list of bad actor instances in the Fediverse"
Are we bad?
@brypto some radical leftist maintains it. Zero accountability. I don’t think many people use it
@jb55 it is a compliment then :)
@amaranthus @jb55 only the best ones, certified by the greatest computational power in the known universe
@jb55 Funny how a platform for free speech enjoys blocking instances of that platform for utilizing free speech
@jb55 imagine being upset about censorship resistant money. How hard is it to fathom that you might be the victim of such censorship, rather than always being on the side of the censor (or being the censor)? Its just so incredibly naive.
Though you would hope that those closest to the protocol/docs remain more neutral, if anything.
@jb55 what is that?
@ProofOfKeags a blocklist that some communist maintains
@jb55 Liberdon folks need to try harder! No blocklist for us!?!?
Most of those instances at blocklists are insanely ridiculous.
I'm ok with being segregated from authoritarians