Don’t federate with that instance if you don’t like its views.
TBH, I find even this view kind of… foreign? It makes sense to defederate from instances that cause harm to the ecosystem (whether by hosting trolls or not guarding against spam) but I just don’t think that “federation” should indicate “approval” in the way so many folk clearly do. Like, letting someone on gmail email me doesn’t mean I approve of what google does.
I view lemmygrad.ml as political spam and bad thoughts not worth propagating. lib.lgbt is also unfederated from sh.itjustwor.ks because they hosted a The_Donald community while wringing their hands about the free speech implications of jettisoning it.
You using gmail means you approve of what Google does. If Google started platforming alt-right content and you were fine with that, that does say something about your approval as well.
TBH, I find even this view kind of… foreign? It makes sense to defederate from instances that cause harm to the ecosystem (whether by hosting trolls or not guarding against spam) but I just don’t think that “federation” should indicate “approval” in the way so many folk clearly do. Like, letting someone on gmail email me doesn’t mean I approve of what google does.
I view lemmygrad.ml as political spam and bad thoughts not worth propagating. lib.lgbt is also unfederated from sh.itjustwor.ks because they hosted a The_Donald community while wringing their hands about the free speech implications of jettisoning it.
You using gmail means you approve of what Google does. If Google started platforming alt-right content and you were fine with that, that does say something about your approval as well.
Ah gotta love the “We have to be tolerant and supportive of free speech, that’s why we let far right people have a place on our platform,” argument.
Tolerance is a peace treaty, we can tolerate each other in so far as others aren’t advocating harm for us or trying to make our existence illegal.
Guess what? Those far right people have broken the peace and they can piss off into their own space, I won’t have them at my table.
This is sensible.