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>> "Human decency involves not telling other adults what they are allowed to peaceably publish or read." So you agree the Mastodon project should be able to de

• sneak 5y ago
  Yes, I do. I also believe in my right to criticize them for appointing themselves censors. This need to paternalistically protect other adults from online content "for their own good" is authoritarian and rude and I hope it goes out of fashion right soon. It's extra bothersome when instance admins (unrelated to the mastodon project) decide for their users what they should be allowed to read. Imagine if your email service decided you couldn't send or receive email to certain domains they decided were "bad people".
  • cortesoft 5y ago
    > Imagine if your email service decided you couldn't send or receive email to certain domains they decided were "bad people". Almost every email provider does something like this - it is called a spam filter. If email of a certain type comes in, it doesn’t go into your inbox. Is that censorship? Sure, you can go into your spam folder and see it, just like mastodon users can connect to an instance not listed on the main mastodon list. Curating content is not a sin.
    • novok 5y ago
      You can turn off your spam filter if you want to, you can't turn off the defederation disconnect. One is opt-in curation, the other is not. I hope we get smart opt-in curation on a user by user basis soon, and you could subscribe to certain curators as you want.
      • cortesoft 5y ago
        How is spam filtering an opt-in curation? I never enabled it on my gmail account, it was just on. Can Mastodon servers not choose to federate with other servers outside the central Mastodon service?
        • FeepingCreature 5y ago
          I wish I could turn my Yahoo spam filter off.