Comment by mnbcsd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mnbcsd | Hacker News Reader

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Using Pleroma will make lots of homeservers block you because the main developers and some major users of the platform are right wing (like KiwiFarms) so lots of Mastodon homeservers consider it to be Nazi software and will block you outright just for using it

This is incidentally why I'm not developing an Activity Pub homeserver myself -- I have no interest in having users doxx my politics simply because I'm interested in social networking protocols.

Personally, my hobby is no longer computers, and it definitely isn't FOSS -- I'm not trying to be the next guy blackballed from the industry for having the wrong thought about the current thing. That's also why I have a throwaway account here. Political activists working inside the tech sphere are savage and have no mercy, and I wish to have nothing to do with them. For me that mostly means: no ActivityPub, no Twitter.

The controversial site you mentioned is currently being blackholed by one of the major transit providers in the US, who are supposed to be neutral when it comes to internet traffic. This is the level of political interference from certain identity groups, disrupting the internet in a way that would usually only get done via the courts.

Best to remain neutral IMO and focus on building the tools for both sides irregardless of your own personal political stance. I really like the approach taken by instant messaging platforms, particularly Signal's approach of being e2e encrypted. That makes them not liable in most cases even in court to withholding information because they physically can't lol. It also means they'll have no way of deciding if they should censor right wingers / left wingers.

In a way this was also what inspired me to build Soul, though I get the appeal of being decentralized and all, I think we can still remain impartial by being an external provider with no access to any other information (e.g. user posts) besides user accounts and relationships.

So, because you think you will be blocked by some group (which will become less relevant as AP grows) you decide to do their job for them and silence yourself?

The only way to end this insanity is by having more normies running pleroma/soapbox/rebased, not by self-censoring from fear of the woke-mob.

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