Forgive the vent, but it used to be that the instances were all simply opinionated in different ways. You could talk to anyone from any instance without anyone getting upset so as long as you were respectful. Being in an instance used to be enviable enough to jest about.

Early on, it went from that to “my opinion should not be pushed back against”. For a while, you could not go into ML territory, for example, and challenge their status quo. Recently it has reached another new level, where people will obliterate you simply for being neutral, and this was after they began to break their own rules. Individual cities in my home country are beginning to consider banning the fediverse, and that’s only because the country itself stopped short of doing it. I thought the fediverse was supposed to make things easier to enjoy. How can we trust we can look up to it in this social environment?

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
    2·
    5 days ago

    It would be fun to see the consequences of defederating the main developer’s instance from most other instances. They’d probably begin seriously changing the codebase and licensing.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    1·
    10 days ago

    .ml admins be like:

    • talking neutrally about which .ml admin took a moderative action in a .ml community, referring to them by the pseudonym used within .ml - “you is doxxing lol”
    • connecting the online identities of the same person across multiple sites, in a way that is clearly violating their privacy, to stir up drama within a discussion - “lets do this lmao”

    Yeah. Rules for thee, not for me; users = “cattle to be herded”.

    inb4 “but those were different people!” - it doesn’t matter when you’re part of a team dammit. Users have the right to not be gaslighted on what they’re allowed or not to do within a community, even if you own that community.

    It’s this sort of shit that made me migrate out of .ml, even if I’m Marxist myself. And I encourage OP to do the same.