Two views of the fediverse
The case for "Trust but verify"
Wait a second. Why should anybody trust Facebook, Instagram, or Meta?
Why the Anti-Meta FediPact is good strategy
We're here, we're queer, fuck Facebook
A few words about digital colonialism
Now's a good time for instance admins to discuss with their communities
In chaos there is opportunity!
The fediverse :
does not make money off of its users
does not exploit its users
does not discriminate
does not tolerate hate, violence or abuse.
does not moderate immorally
We are not aligned with Meta and their predatory practices. Therefore I think it's completely valid and critical to defederate them.
If you're not on a Meta instance, then let users on such an instance care about themselves.
If your instance is affected by discrimination, hate, violence, abuse, immoral moderation due to how another instance is run, then that instance can be defederated soon enough, just like now. No need to do that pre-emptively because an instance is run by Meta or by whomever.
@sibrosan Or, if an instance that's about to launch has a long history of discrimination, hate, violance, abuse, and contributions to genocide, you can announce your intention to defederate from them even before they launch.
"you can announce your intention to defederate from them even before they launch."
I would want my instance to abide by its stated server rules, without exceptions either way. That may mean defederation of an instance if it doesn't ensure my instance's users are protected from transgressions by its users, but not defederation because of an expectation it won't. In case it proves necessary, defederation can be effected quickly enough.
Why do you think so many trans and queer people -- who are very likely to be directly impacted by transgressions of the rules -- come to a different conclusion and advocate preemptively blocking?