It’s a good news bad news situation. Each individual instance can, will, and should moderate as it sees fit. When you pick an instance you pick a community just like in the real world.
Some communities are completely open, anything goes. You are absolutely free to be a gay nazi seal clubber (or any other group that there are people may not like). The drawback is there are entire communities that really hate seal clubbers. Those communities are just as free to block content coming from them.
That is a kind of restriction.
The good news is that the restriction is 100% explicit. There’s no invisible algorithm quietly hiding your posts. You just can’t force people to see seal clubbing videos if they find them repugnant.
you will end up finding many instances with their own vibe and many communities between all of the various instances to suit your tastes. just give it a chance and look around.
Almost but not entirely I think, when reading the documentation I discovered a tidbit about how federation works, you can set up an instance to work with either: open to all, block list (open to all except those blocked) or allow list (meaning you block all and allow only those on the list).
So your new instance would be able to federate with the first two, but it wouldn‘t with instances who work with allow list. I‘m not yet aware of those, but if it‘s an option it probably exists.
Please anyone correct me if I am wrong, still trying to wrap my head around this!
It’s not unbiased because communities hosting the instances are not unbiased. But they are the ones in control here and not some company. Anyone can host their own and do what they want.
just hoping this is unbiased, unlike other platforms. harboring just one view and silencing others played a big part in getting people to jump ship
It’s a good news bad news situation. Each individual instance can, will, and should moderate as it sees fit. When you pick an instance you pick a community just like in the real world.
Some communities are completely open, anything goes. You are absolutely free to be a gay nazi seal clubber (or any other group that there are people may not like). The drawback is there are entire communities that really hate seal clubbers. Those communities are just as free to block content coming from them.
That is a kind of restriction.
The good news is that the restriction is 100% explicit. There’s no invisible algorithm quietly hiding your posts. You just can’t force people to see seal clubbing videos if they find them repugnant.
you will end up finding many instances with their own vibe and many communities between all of the various instances to suit your tastes. just give it a chance and look around.
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Almost but not entirely I think, when reading the documentation I discovered a tidbit about how federation works, you can set up an instance to work with either: open to all, block list (open to all except those blocked) or allow list (meaning you block all and allow only those on the list).
So your new instance would be able to federate with the first two, but it wouldn‘t with instances who work with allow list. I‘m not yet aware of those, but if it‘s an option it probably exists.
Please anyone correct me if I am wrong, still trying to wrap my head around this!
It’s not unbiased because communities hosting the instances are not unbiased. But they are the ones in control here and not some company. Anyone can host their own and do what they want.