Since I guess everything is political these days, I’ll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.

Mainly, there’s so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I’d rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.

But… people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.

So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.

Just speaking into the void, since I figure it’s an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.

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  • volkris@qoto.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Can I look up a total list of where I'm banned? No ban notification.
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    9 months ago

    @Sprite I could imagine two schools of thought on that.

    (and I’m not saying one is right or not)

    The other side is I imagine a ban represents an intention to disconnect, including the connection that would be required to let the person know they’re banned.

    That also avoids drama that a misbehaving user might stir up in response to the ban.

    Technically, in this distributed system, banning is more about ignoring someone. Instances can’t trust each other, so by keeping banning on the receiver side instead of the sender side, the ban-er has more control over the banning.

    Moderation in the Fediverse is about making sure MY users on MY instance get the experience they want, regardless of what any other instance does.

    It all comes down to the distributed structure here.