![]() Keep in mind this already happens when it comes to spam the difference is that nazis are not blasting random emails with nazi stuff so it becomes much harder to track. If an email account was serving me nazi propaganda I would inform the platform, and if it was coming from a specific email provider they would likely be blacklisted. You can be banned from gmail for especially egregious things for example. > Do you care if your email provider happens to give accounts to Nazis or communists or religious nutsĮmail providers very explicitly do care. ![]() (That's not to say that Usenet doesn't have problems of its own.) Servers can decide to carry or not carry a newsgroup, but they don't cut off a complete server for what happens in one of the newsgroups. In Usenet, to name another decentralized service, this is completely different. Yes, you can change to a different server, but changing servers is not nearly as frictionless as it's sometimes made out to be. Whichever server you choose to join, you always have the risk of getting defederated for things you have nothing to do with. When the graph is not complete, suddenly you can't follow your favorite topic because some users talking about a different topic did something that the admin on the other server isn't happy with. The expectation is that the graph is complete. The way the Fediverse works, as it is explained to newcomers, is that you can follow any topic on any server regardless of which server you are one. On a service like Reddit a user can simply visit or join subreddits they are interested in, and ignore subreddits they are not interested, or which they find offensive. In order for systems like these to work communities need a way to defederate and control who they connect to, because inevitably bad instances will rise whose sole purpose is spam, harassment etc. It's like I said, a return to forums or IRC style governing except the authority is the forum or channel itself, and they can link to other forums/channels as they want in a seamless fashion. But those borders can close depending on how their neighbors interact. Federated instances are multiple kingdoms that share borders which they keep open for the sake of trade. ![]() ![]() You are at their whims, as evident by the fact that they're removing mods that disagree with their API policy. Reddit is a kingdom whose king delegates power to various fiefdoms, but ultimately still controls the land. It's similar to being specifically banned from a subreddit. Because there is no single authority dictating where you can and cannot post, unlike Reddit. If you're banned from a popular instance you're not banned from the platform as a whole. You're talking about 'power centralization' in a completely different and orthogonal way from how the federation works, which makes me think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of centralization or federation. ![]()
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