The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by 673457e347 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @11:18PM (#38513707)

I don't really see this as a bad thing. The LGBT community pioneered using safe spaces to build consensus while attacking safe spaces for dissenting opinions. All that this is going to lead to is everyone being allowed a safe space now which seems fair to me. I'm sure some of the spaces will lead to extremist dialogues but the other side of that is that moderate users will be able to move between communities at-will to see how different groups interact without the censorship the current deplatforming wars have enabled.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by p-e-w on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:09AM (#38514181)

> but the other side of that is that moderate users will be able to move between communities at-will

Nope. Banning users for simply being members of certain other communities has been a thing for quite a while now.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by RandomLensman on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:28AM (#38514966)

Nothing new. That existed before social media and the internet, too. Ban people from certain jobs because the communities they associated with.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by mananaysiempre on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:11AM (#38515199)

(Illegal in many countries post the rise of social democracy, for what it’s worth—the US being a notable exception.)

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by RandomLensman on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:49AM (#38515430)

Not really true for Germany during the cold war, pretty sure that wasn't the only example. Just think about things like security clearances.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by mananaysiempre on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:48AM (#38516596)

France specifically lists political affiliation among protected categories, while post-socialist countries flat out prohibit hiring decisions on anything unrelated to the ability to perform the job (and arguing “cultural fit” qualifies would be a difficult proposition, were the rejected hire to actually go to court).

Governments may be allowed to be more discriminatory for national security reasons, and AFAICT security clearances are in part a backdoor to get this to be permissible in private employment as well.

(Of course, it’s a different story if the political organization in question is actually banned, but in most civilized places that’s a very high bar—I’d argue that’s one of the qualifications of the moniker, even.)

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by RandomLensman on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:53AM (#38516636)

Not to forget: Government is also a large employer, not just the private sector.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by ericd on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:32AM (#38517708)

Sorry, I don't know much about these, but how does anyone know what other communities you're part of? Is it difficult to have per-community pseudonyms?

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