The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

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    Wasn’t lemmy created by tankies? Avoided it for kbin (I’m aware of the federation) due to this.

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      When I see people say what you’re saying, I know that they don’t have a basic handle on how the Fediverse or Lemmy works.

      They developed the platform and currently run Lemmy.ml. The whole point of federation is that they cant control other instances.

      You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.

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        You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.

        Kbin.social doesn’t defederate lemmy.ml, so either way we’re playing by their “don’t say Uyghur genocide because we don’t think it’s real and we will ban you based on that belief” rules if we accidentally stumble into there.

        This is where I would like to see individual-level instance blocking so that it doesn’t show up in the home feed, same as how I can block everything that pops up in a language I don’t speak.

        Edit: Turns out we have that! Just found another thread showing how. On kbin, it’s possible to view entire instances separately, and there’s a “block” button similar to individual magazines/communities/users. To see lemmy.ml, the link would be

        https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml

        but replacing the lemmy.ml part with any instance should take people to that instance just the same.

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      And Reddit has been backed by Tencent - CCP supporters by default - and Peter Thiel - a white supremacists and actual, literal fascist.

      The politics of the people behind for-profit endeavours that the public has no actual control over regardless of stake seemingly never comes up. The politics of people behind things that challenge for-profit endeavours and gives control of things back to the public is often under the microscope.

      We don’t know ernest’s politics. What if it came out tomorrow that he was an anarchist? Or that he was also a Leninist? Or was a white supremacist? Or that he liked Nickelback?

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        Or that he liked Nickelback?

        I’ll see past many things, but Nickelback?

        Not even once.