Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem
kabe@lemmy.world 3 weeks agobut, these communities come along with an assortment of lies and Propaganda.
So block those individual communities that post what you consider propaganda.
At which point the negative outweigh the positive?
With a server like, say, Hexbear, this would be an easy calculation. Defederate and what does the average user miss out on? Not a whole lot. On the other hand, .ml has a wide variety of technology, open source, gaming, hobby, etc. communities that don’t even touch on politics.
I regularly visit many of them, so for me at least, it would take a lot more on the negative scale to even break even.
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For sure I can block them for myself (as I have mentioned in my Post itself) but this won’t solve the Problem of policing non political Communities and injecting them also with propaganda.
kabe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To what extent is this actually an issue? What examples do you have so far?
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pardon me but have you read the Post i linked? He talked about politics, granted, but banning him from non-political Communities (in fact, ALL Communities) is completely out of proportion. And that is just for reciting established facts!
kabe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes I have, which is why I’m asking. While I agree that the admin response was totally out of all proportion, this is not evidence of either of the things you claimed. What happened there was that OP challenged the pro-CCP version of events in a political discussion and got banned from the entire instance.
If you’re going to justify defederation based on non-political communities being policed and injected with propaganda, you need to provide some concrete examples of that happening.