Who said I didn't intend to use them?
Comment on We should insulate Wolfballs against Communism
10_0@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Also taking communities you don't intend to use is going to be a pain in the ass if someone wanted to actually make a commie sublemmy, but then again it's only "freespeech" if I can be the first to shout at someone, for daring to "infiltrate" my "insulation".
Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
10_0@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
The fact that you heavily disagree with Communism, and don't want Communists on wolfballs. Or you could just post mocking memes about Lemmy's devs, and make posts shitting on Communism, then I'm completely wrong and you have won the war.
Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Wouldn't the place to disagree with Communism be in the communist community? I'm not understanding your critique.
10_0@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Having a non-communist who wants to "insulate" the instance from communism run the sublemmy for them, makes it hostile for them to promote, or hold a disscution in their own sublemmy, without being made unwelcome by being the only one who believes in communism and were not even the mod is communist. (It creates a hostile environment for them.)
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yeah I figure why not let Communists run their communist community... Maybe even allow them to not tolerate dissent there....
Becsuse the rest of this place will be invariably dominated by us.
It would of course be weird if suddenly we got ten thousand communist users and master is paying for basically the upkeep of ninety nine percent communist content but if this also generated revenue and kept the website working then... I guess it would be the Communists business if they chose to give money to master.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
One important thing is that wolfballs isn't reddit. It's a federated website running FOSS software that supports the ActivityPub software platform.
With reddit, there's one and only one reddit and it's the only place you can host a reddit community. If you're not allowed to host something on reddit.com, then you're not allowed to host something on reddit.
By contrast, if someone can't host their lemmy community on wolfballs, they can turn right around and buy wolfdick.com and host their own instance. Hell, most lemmy instances are hosted on .ml (marxist leninist) domains, they're overtly communist already, and they can moderate their communities on their sites however they like -- and they do.
On a site they control, they can subscribe to any communities on any site they wish, or they can block any site or community or users they desire.
The concept of fairness is significantly different in an ecosystem like that. Anyone can start a site, nobody needs to ask permission, and if you get banned from one of the instances (I'm now banned from lemmy.ml because of course I am), your ability to engage has only been lessened by one site you're not directly using.
In some ways, they do us a favor in that manner: They become a hugbox echo chamber where nobody is allowed to disagree, and the rest of us can hang out in the smoking section with the cool kids who can say things people don't like.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
We need to form a network of more free instances. The left is really good at organizing. I know the code pretty well now. At least the api part not yet the activity pub parts. I'm happy to teach any developers how things work ect..
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
I think the big thing won't be technological, it'll be social. We need to get out there and shout each other out and make sure we connect together.
Freedom wins out in the end because unlike the commies, we don't go actively kicking our most interesting people out just because they're saying things we don't immediately like.