• elgordofordo86@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why can’t people decide for themselves? I don’t get the appeal of someone blocking something for me? A real turn off for me on lemmy so far. I get it for now since the tools aren’t there yet but long term if it continues to be an issue I’d probably have to self host or get out.

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      1 year ago

      They can decide for themselves. They can run their own server or join a server that has few rules (although that server may get defederated by others).

      That’s way more freedom than you get on non-federated social media.

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        1 year ago

        It’s freedom in the loosest sense. As in there’s more options. Would it still be freedom if a government makes choices for you? I suppose if I have the means to move to a different country it technically still is. Still distasteful. I don’t know the people that run my instance. Why should I trust them to know what’s best? We’ll see how it shakes out.