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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 day agoThe only one I know of shut down and the admin posted this message:
I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.
So they shutdown because they couldn’t federate with any other instances and considered that censorship. A few people linked to another instance I’ve never heard of as an alternative and that one 404s if you type in the address so I guess they’re all still on reddit and twitter.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Damn, I actually didn’t see that coming, I guess they will move the goal post from any starting point.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and ask: How is it not censorship?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Cause no one is stopping you from going to said instance and just having the discussion there.
If there was this super important leak that needed to be out there, if it’s posted on a right wing instance that is a defederated ghost town, it’s still out there. People can link to it and leverage the instance to have the needed discussions.
Censorship means removing access, defederation does not wipe it off of the Internet.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I would argue that censorship includes the suppression of information in its definition, not only it’s removal.