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Ah, a slippery slope/exaggeration argument.
Still doesn't answer my question though.
It's not slippery slope because we have already been instance-hopping as every instance defederates and bans and defederates and bans, all the while we are ridiculed for expressing a desire to be connected, told to get lost.
Sure, whatever. Still hoping someone can answer my question.
I believe the answer is the fact that the corporations are upset that they can't control the free flow of information on the web, due to the way that it was designed. The free flow people seem to be worried that by de-federating and blocking communities we are effectively silencing them due to pressure from corporations that many people seem to feel shouldn't have the ability to silence us.
So you're saying people have been sensitized due to being banned/blocked/shadowbanned/whatever on the major services, and are thus having some kind of knee-jerk reaction to any and all blocks to participation here? Because we are certainly not a corporation. We're just individuals, who have individual freedom.
Including the freedom to block people from our hardware.
Essentially, yeah. The masses are having a kneejerk reaction. I believe the lemmings that were here before the major Sync/Reddit migration may have more of a point.
I don't believe the second group is reacting just because [specific instance] is getting banned. I believe that group is reacting because of the implications of groups getting banned, as those lemmings are more concerned with maintenance than the corporations.
And they're right! Which means their anger is directed at the wrong thing if they're mad at Lemmy.world. Be mad that the corporations have been given the power to crush the common people just by making them have to defend themselves in court.
Then host your own instance with all the blackjack, hookers, and liability you want; instead of bitching about what toys someone else has in their sandbox.
Instead, you can host your own instance and block everybody, and stop telling your fellow lemurians to fuck off, and stop pretending that sharing a very common opinion is "bItcHinG"
You are just a troll.
Do you practice being this stupid or does it come naturally? Your opinion has no bearing on reality.