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0 pointsscoofy18d ago0 comments

In North Korea, you can’t start your own instance to say what you want. They will still jail you for what you say. That’s the actual point.

The fact that other people want to be on a system that blocks you is their business, not yours. The point of the fediverse is you get to choose your own censorship.

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cykros18d ago

If you got to choose your own censorship it'd be nice. As it stands, other instances can decide to defederate with what you're on. Sometimes, even knocking off servers you had connectivity with that were indirect.

The Fediverse is to Nostr what the legacy telephone system was to the Internet.

scoofyOP18d ago

>If you got to choose your own censorship it'd be nice. As it stands, other instances can decide to defederate with what you're on.

That is not censorship!

This conversation is frustrating exactly because people think a group “excluding” someone is “censoring” them. Except that's not what censorship is.

Censorship is about you not being allowed to say what you want on a sign outside your own bar.

You complaining about a different bar, not letting you in because they don’t like you. That’s not censorship, that’s just people being jerks to you… and that is allowed. Nobody has to listen to you if they don't like you. Nobody has to even let you in the door to where they hang out if they don't like you, especially if the reason they kicked you out was something you said.

darqis17d ago

It's 1 person, the instance admin, deciding what's good or bad for all their users. And this is, I'm not sure what, but gives instance admins too much power to moderate content the way they like vs giving the individual user the choice to decide on their own. Call it whatever you like.

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