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  • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree, but on the other hand if we moved to decentralized platforms no strikes would be necessary. People only do this, because a company is holding their content as a hostage.

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      Striking will just be replaced with defederation. For example lemmy.world has been defederated by a bunch of instances because it allows anyone to sign up for an account.

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          Some people might do that. But lemmy.world is a very well run community that has never done anything offensive, and yet it’s still defederated by some of the biggest lemmy instances.

          That proves defederation is for more than just spam/illegal content/harassment. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s pretty disruptive. Like a strike.

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              Yeah, they’re the one that makes you answer 3 vague open end questions and then manually approve it.

              If you don’t write enough, or write something they dont agree with… You dont get denied, it’s just like it’s still pending indefinitely.

              Lemmy.world requires a valid email instead (something beehaw doesn’t).

              There’s no right or wrong way to go about it. Which is the biggest benefit of Lemmy. Somewhere out there, there’s an instance being ran like how you want, if not, just make your own.

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                If you don’t write enough, or write something they dont agree with… You dont get denied, it’s just like it’s still pending indefinitely.

                That’s a Lemmy issue. It doesn’t show some errors or registration denials for some reason, and just fails silently, pending/loading forever.

                It will also happen if you try to register an account, but the account name already exists. It will get stuck loading, since it doesn’t display or receive any errors.