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That’s pretty insane levels of power.
So Occam’s Razor is that this instance admin must have seen one of my opinionated pieces on Trump or something that offended them, and then just said “Nah, this one isn’t coming to my instance”?
Not because I broke a rule, or offended anyone on that instance but because one person didn’t like my opinion on a post somewhere else.
How is that insane levels of power? They don't want you sending messages to their server instance they own and pay for. It only effects other people on Lemmy.zip and the only effect on you is that you can't interact with the communities hosted there. You're still free to participate and use communities on any other instance. Lemmy is not a centralized service like reddit. It is a web of small instances and you send email like messages in the activitypub format to each one. If you have a shitty opinion and someone who owns and pays for a server doesn't want your shitty opinion to contaminate their server, that is their right.
Ok from that point of view it is seems reasonable, but seeing how I’m on world, and world is like still 60-70% of Lemmy, I was referring to the fact that hypothetically one lemmy.world admin could essentially make people disappear.
Which is what ICE is for.
Which is kinda what we’re here trying to call out.
With insane levels of power I meant that one person in their basement with their parents creditcard who no one elected, has a disproportionate say in who gets to speak and who doesn’t.
I’m not on X and I’m basically just discovering (I know) that this is just a glued together bunch of X-es. (In terms of of absolute admin power, luckily not (yet) in terms of content)
If that person did this reasonless instance-banning with multiple people, at what point would there be a consideration to defederate from their instance? Is there even a process for that?
Dumbest and most tone deaf take you could possibly have.
An admin banning you from their platform is nothing remotely close to people being snatched off the street and put into Alligator Auschwitz or sent to a foreign prison.
Unlike the people actually being persecuted, you can just go create another account so you don't have to cry about it.
Also, don't take this as me defending the admin, it's a stupid decision. But if this is your response, maybe the admin made an informed decision (one that I don't care to investigate, given the galaxy brain take here).