Somehow, I feel like the federated network is still centralized, because there is still censorship; it’s just distributed across more servers.
I mean, it definitely gives users more rights to free speech, and I’m not worried about privacy issues. However, the removal of content and the banning of accounts are things that are diminishing my passion for sharing my thoughts publicly(on reddit).
I just dont want this happened on here but I am seeing some…
Run your own instance and federate with everybody.
Your right to choose is the same as everybody else’s right to choose. You can decide to post something, and others can decide they don’t want to see it. Decentralized just means there is no one entity to make those decisions for you.
Federation and “censorship” aren’t mutually exclusive?
However, the removal of content and the banning of accounts are things that are diminishing my passion for sharing my thoughts publicly(on reddit).
I just dont want this happened on here but I am seeing some…
Those post/comment removal and user banning are for a good reason. For every one innocent content removed there’s a large amount of harmful content removed as well.
yeah this seems like a self tell…
what is it they want to say that’s getting them banned?
I’ve literally never been banned off a platform before.
Censorship is also decentralised which means no single entity will be able to completely control the information, but that doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want without consequence of all the decentralised instances agreeing that particular information should not be shared. Decentralisation does not guarantee you an audience!
Start your own instance and community. Post whatever the hell you like.
Then other instances choose whether to defederate. They federate by default.
There is no single point of control (centralisation) which decides what is seen on all instances.
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Never heard about it
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I am too lazy to type out all these words, just see it for yourself.
Wiremin appears to be more for a chatroom with defined participants. Not really a public forum type of app. If it is supposed to be, it would suffer drastically from a growing userbase. It looks more like a messaging system with defined recipients.
You’re mixing up words and definitions.
Centralized vs decentralized is a structural decision.
Censorship is what can be done within that structure. Centralized censorship means one group is able to block content, whereas decentralized “censorship” means that you can go to another platform with little to no fuss.
I use quotations because censorship is when you censor someone and stop their message from being seen, which you cannot do in federation. No one is required to megaphone info or opinions they don’t want to share, so it’s not really censorship to block content on your own instance.
On this part of the Fediverse, things definitely lean a bit more left/center, in general, so that’s something you may want to keep in mind with the communities you’re interacting with. I’ve seen a few communities that lean a bit more to the right, but they’re definitely more moderate, I’ve found. There’s other parts of the Fediverse, though, that lean even further to the right. There’s also a few that go waaaay further left than here. There’s plenty of options.
But something else to consider, is that some of those instances are defederated this part of the overall network, so you may see that there’s a sort of self-imposed firewall between some of these communities. But wherever you go, every instance is privately-operated, so you’ll be beholden to somebody else’s rules. The workaround for this is that you can host your own instance and do whatever you want. But, it’s up to each individual community whether or not they want to allow your content on their platform, as much as it is you with yours.
I’ve not looked into your post history, so I don’t know which way you lean. Maybe I agree with your opinions. Maybe I absolutely despise your hot takes. Either way, I hope you find an appropriate place to share them. Best of luck!
If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.
Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.
But other people who are on my server might think the same way as I mentioned
You don’t need to allow other people on your server.
Well it’s yours so you get to decide. Go make your own platform and you can have all the freedom you want. But it always seems to be that folks want a share of someone else’s platform, and when they can’t get it, their freedom has been taken away. SMH
You should have spent time reading the rules of your server before spending time with writing your content. It doesn’t matter if others care or not. Someone has a wall and is letting you write on it. It’s their wall, not yours. They can make their own rules. You are free to have your own wall.
You can absolutely have free speech, but nobody is forced to actually listen to you.
Which is good, because in the real world, every place that has “zero censorship” rapidly devolves into a Nazi invested shithole.
Ya, I agree with you that no one is forced to actually listen to me, but removing content… I mean, I was spending a lot of time writing those and looking for replies, but they just remove it before anyone sees it… That sucks.
What did you post that got removed?
No one is required to host your content, spread your voice, give you a platform. You really need to stop using the term “freedom of speech” here. It means something totally different. Publisher won’t print your book? “Censorship!” This is what you sound like.
Okay okay, stop being so angry about it man, you know I am talking about ‘censorship’ when I say ‘fos’
They’re literally saying it’s not censorship. If a publisher doesn’t publish your book, is it censorship? No. Folks aren’t forced to host your content if they don’t want to.
Exactly, thank you. It’s neither an infringement of free speech nor censorship. None of us has any entitlement to amplification here. We participate by the good graces of the mods and admins.
(I think this dude is 14 and still thinking of everything as black and white, and also everything being about him)
They’re afraid of my raw power!
I am😂
Its decentralized nature isn’t due to censorship, or a lack of it, but its structure. Of course there’s going to be some degree of censorship because instances all have individual rules which, if you break, you’ll be penalized for which can take the form of removal of content.
The only way to have total free speech is create your own instance which is a total free for all but then you’ll attract the worst sort of people and your instance will end up defederated by instance owners who don’t want content from literal Nazis federated to their instances.
That second paragraph highlights exactly how the Fediverse works. If you’re a shitty friend, no one will want to be friends with you.
Centralisation in this instance refers to control over the network and standard itself rather than control over what’s posted on it. There’s no single authority that can unilaterally change how every Fediverse instance and system works - for example, there isn’t anyone who can decree that from now on Lemmy will no longer allow connections from Canada, or that nobody is allowed to post pictures of capybaras any more.
It’s intended to prevent a /u/spez or Elon Musk situation where one asshole can bring down the entire ecosystem built around an API. Nothing stops anyone else from hosting their own instance if they dislike lemmy.world, whereas if you don’t like Twitter, you can’t just host your own copy of it.
I can’t help but feel that you’re conflating censorship with centralization. A defederated network just means that the servers you’re on will choose what they’d like to censor. Running your own server or looking for one which you probably agree with is something which may work for you, while giving others the ability to defederate and not have to read what you’re saying.
The fediverse being decentralized means that there are many servers/instances, each with their own codes of conduct (or lack of one). Similarly, different communities on those servers can have different rules they might want to enforce with removals of posts or comments. For example, a community about cat pictures will have a rule about posts having to be cat pictures and will remove a post about your grandma’s vegetable soup recipe.
If your comment/post was removed, that probably means your post/comment was either against the rules of the community or against the code of conduct of the entire server/instance. If it’s the former, look for or create a community where that kind of content is appreciated. If you’re running up against the code of conduct of the instance, look for a server/instance where your content wouldn’t be violating the code of content or make your own server/instance where you’re the one defining the code of conduct. Of course, that code of conduct would only apply to communities on your server.
If your server becomes a source of constant shit, admins of other servers might decide to defederate from your server. Think of it like making your own email server: if too many of your email server’s emails are spam, other email providers might decide to designate your email server as a spam factory and block all emails coming from it.
