cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/162716

Hello friends, I have been thinking about the defederation issue

I have a satirical post in mind for the subject but a different topic came to mind

what if instead of defederating, a “soft” defederation could be activated, where content basically is not served to users unless they opt in to it

So like say “shhhhhhitjust.works” instance activates “opt in soft defederation”. Exploding Heads posts stops showing up on the instance, but users could still navigate to shhhhhhitjust.works/c/[email protected] and choose to subscribe and then stuff would show up

This would allow admins to be able to not promote content they agree with, while allowing users the ability to still interact with content they might approve of agreeing with

thoughts or has someone proposed this already?

we could also call for a new round of soft refederation if this idea is of use to anyone

edit: I suppose I should add I’m not really advocating for soft defederations at all so much as for them over “hard” or “full” defederations as have gone on as they drastically cut off all communication

  • SendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    I would really rather see users eventually get the ability to just block an entire instance if they don’t like the content there, and have admins step in for actual defederation in the case of illegal / abusive content

    • gizmonicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m in for this. If we’re worried about defedration gone wild, I get it, just let me have my own personal blacklist I can employ to filter all the trumpanzees out of my feed.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy keeps showing me old posts like this one. Anyway, Connect for Lemmy (android app) has an instance blocking feature.

    • squashkin@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      I guess that’s been raised on a github issue (see carbon’s comment in this post) so it’s just waiting on someone to code it I think

    • meldroc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      In the case of that Detonating Craniums board, the content is indeed abusive. Having had the poor taste to peek, (NSFW, trigger: bigotry)

      spoiler

      I saw a “joke” about throwing trans people into a woodchipper. Yeah, not funny. That’s what they do - make it acceptable to murder people who are different.

      They’re completely despicable. They need full defederation.

      • squashkin@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        they need full defederation

        but then I can’t come and discuss the topic with you at all

        I saw a post like you describe, but I think it was about harming not simply “people who are different” but criminals who abuse children. Throughout history such criminals were often punished severely with imprisonment or worse.

        So, we aren’t able to have any discussions to try to clarify things with defederation. That to me is one issue.

        The other is I like to post random things that are kind of “neutral”, like I was wondering what masks are recommended for wildfires or about how to improve lung health if you get exposed to toxic fumes, which I would presume most people might be interested in discussing: https://exploding-heads.com/post/161502?scrollToComments=true