In the spirit of being encouraged to speak my mind here’s a slight effort post:

Defederation does not do what you think it does.

The instance creator and admins are those with the ultimate power within their instance. The active users delegate them that power by interacting with their instance.

Defining “defederation” within the context of Lemmy as I understand it:

“the act of denying the ability for accounts within specific instances to interact with each other”

Anyone at this current time can create an account on most instances. One site on sh.itjust.works is defederated right now, but anyone here may also have an account there, who knows? The value comes from our activity and interaction within each instance.

Defederation is a narrow and a slippery slope because it doesn’t actually solve any problems. There are many instances which are doing things I think should be banned. I don’t interact with them. I don’t provide them with any value.

We uphold an inclusive enjoyable community here by being active. Individuals with malicious intent are ostracized naturally by an active community. Defederating entire instances does not stop bad actors, but an active strongwilled community does.

It’s not our responsibility to moderate other instances.

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    26·
    1 year ago

    Shit centrist take.

    If a community doesn’t want to interact with a different one, let them not.

    This whole “awww you shouldn’t ban people from the community, it’s just words so just ignore them” reeks of the shit Nazis complain about after getting banned.

    • baker@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      1 year ago

      I don’t necessarily get centrist take from this, just a PSA that defederation isn’t a super ban hammer.

      OP seems to be saying that there are more efficient ways to duck unwanted content than by playing whack a mole with the whole instance. I’m not sure that’s an endorsement of said content.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Nothing wrong with being a centrist.

      You’ll find in many countries worldwide centrism is the norm. Try to keep in mind that your country’s local definitions are not the same.