Re:Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
by lolinder on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:24PM
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The difference is that email is private. The contents of your email are not seen as being endorsed by Google just because you have an @gmail.com address, so Google doesn't have an incentive to ban you just because they find your politics odious.
In the fediverse calls to defederate happen pretty regularly, and the reasoning is sound—your instance will be publicly mirroring any content on a federated instance, so if you don't want to publicly host extremist views (from either wing) your only option is to defederate from instances that allow them.
Re:Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)
by whoopdedo on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:09PM
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Banning in the email world means having your messages dumped into a junk folder. Or worse having your IP address in a reject list so its impossible to operate a private server.
In the fediverse calls to defederate happen pretty regularly, and the reasoning is sound—your instance will be publicly mirroring any content on a federated instance, so if you don't want to publicly host extremist views (from either wing) your only option is to defederate from instances that allow them.