A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that’s not realistic.
Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)
A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that’s required by having their stuff federate to your server – not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions – just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator’s workload. Easier to avoid it.
Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.
Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)
Ehh that sounds like “I’m not punishing I’m disciplining” wordplay.
The wikipedia article on censorship lists a lot of forms of what we consider just plain moderation, like banning hate speech or harmful content:
A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that’s not realistic.
Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)
A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that’s required by having their stuff federate to your server – not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions – just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator’s workload. Easier to avoid it.
Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.
Ehh that sounds like “I’m not punishing I’m disciplining” wordplay.
The wikipedia article on censorship lists a lot of forms of what we consider just plain moderation, like banning hate speech or harmful content:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
It’s not just the manipulation of a political narrative or the malicious suppression of opinions. Sometimes censorship is good.