I thought linking to tweets was pretty much banned in the fediverse. Apparently not?
Edit: sorry for the thought crime of thinking I saw some general agreement in several posts a couple weeks ago where it seemed wildly popular to ban links to a platform that funds Nazis. I’ll try not to commit that heinous act again.
It depends on the instance, because there are no universal rules across the fediverse, that’s the point of the fediverse, and I don’t believe this instance voted to do the pointless act of banning Twitter.
I fully realize this. I’m referring to a larger discussion which was an idea being thrown out which a lot of communities and instances seemed on board with.
That’s fine but your comment was basically “oh not everyone is doing the same thing on the fediverse?” Which you just acknowledged is the point of the fediverse. So you should criticize specific instances rather than just making a blanket statement
In order to block that, every single admin on every single instance would have to set up blocking tools. From there, anyone that decides to start their own instance would have to decide to also set up those tools. Thats the main draw of the fediverse, you cant block anything because someone can always federate with an instance that doesnt have that thing blocked.
I thought linking to tweets was pretty much banned in the fediverse. Apparently not?
Edit: sorry for the thought crime of thinking I saw some general agreement in several posts a couple weeks ago where it seemed wildly popular to ban links to a platform that funds Nazis. I’ll try not to commit that heinous act again.
Maybe stay on topic to the thread next time.
Sees post of horrifying condition of Palestinian man
“Why is there a Twitter link I thought Twitter was evil?”
There’s a time and a place.
Twitter is still one of the primary content discovery platforms. Reddit is a distilled Twitter feed.
It depends on the instance, because there are no universal rules across the fediverse, that’s the point of the fediverse, and I don’t believe this instance voted to do the pointless act of banning Twitter.
I fully realize this. I’m referring to a larger discussion which was an idea being thrown out which a lot of communities and instances seemed on board with.
That’s fine but your comment was basically “oh not everyone is doing the same thing on the fediverse?” Which you just acknowledged is the point of the fediverse. So you should criticize specific instances rather than just making a blanket statement
You misunderstood me. It wasn’t a criticism, it was a confirmation of misunderstanding
I didnt know that. Where can I find these claims ?
I didn’t say it was a hard and fast rule. I had just seen a lot of discussion about it and some communities and instances I know seemed on board. The lemmy search feature kinda sucks as usual but this shows a few examples of the types of posts I’d seen: https://lemmy.world/search?q=links+to+twitter&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Dbzer0 has banned them. world has not I don’t believe
How would that possibly be enforced
Moderation and/or bots? That wouldn’t be hard at all.
In order to block that, every single admin on every single instance would have to set up blocking tools. From there, anyone that decides to start their own instance would have to decide to also set up those tools. Thats the main draw of the fediverse, you cant block anything because someone can always federate with an instance that doesnt have that thing blocked.
It’s not my fault that you can’t understand the idea of general agreement vs strict requirement enforced with an iron fist.