Ok fair enough, but that isn't exactly a hard hurdle to overcome.
fr0g
joined 2 years ago
Umm, all of what you are describing already exists and is basically how lemmy works. The local feed would always be empty on your newly setup instance if course, precisely because it is the "local" feed. If you want to see the feed of all the instances you are federating with, that's "all" (or whatever it's called on your specific client).
Limiting the visibility of somebody voice is also censorship
It's not (always). Especially if the people "limiting your voice" are the ones giving you the platform to reach other people in the first place, usually out of their own pocket or thanks to donations. In the fediverse at least you can always set up your own instance.
Not really. You can just switch instances if you're not happy with your admin's policies. Although figuring out who is federating with whom could be a bit more straightforward.
The alternative would be giving no option of defederation and making live a living hell for mods and admins. They're already doing unpaid work in almost all cases so nobody would profit from driving them towards burnout, which is still all too common as it is.
People not wanting to engage with other people is not censorship. Nobody is entitled to someone else's attention.
Peertube is a video and streming platform (like youtube) and owncast a streaming platform (like twitch) that are FOSS, self-hostable and connected to the Fediverse. Although I don't think getting any amount of viewers on those platforms will be any easier.
Oh, okay, so you're talking about a case scenario where you're on a small/new instance that also isn't your own. Got it, dunno why I was making a different assumption. Yeah, I can see what you're talking about then.