Lately I see a lot of calls do have specific instances defederated for a particular subset of reasons:
- Don’t like their content
- Dont like their political leaning
- Dont like their free speech approach
- General feeling of being offended
- I want a safe space!
- This instance if hurting vulnerable people
I personally find each and every one of these arguments invalid. Everybody has the right to live in an echo chamber, but mandating it for everyone else is something that goes a bit too far.
Has humanity really developed into a situation where words and thoughts are more hurtful than sticks and stones?
Edit: Original context https://slrpnk.net/post/554148
Controversial topic, feel free to discuss!
Boycotts as individual decisions yes. Boycotts as institutional warfare (top to bottom) are not.
You became part of a server which boycotts other servers when you made the individual decision to create an account here
As far as I’m aware (which doesn’t mean much) I haven’t seen any boycott this instance based on “I dislike opinions expressed elsewhere, let’s defederate them”. If you can provide examples I’m happy to look into it and change my mind.