Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.

And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.

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    I don’t think its completely impossible but I totally realize its highly unlikely. never know though. that is the magic of community things as you never know who will take up something. imma peanut gallery though but it surprises me how many folks prefer some sort of on high authority over individual control on something like this. How can anarchist principles work if they can’t even work in 100% virtual and grass roots community endeavour?

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        I don’t know them well enough to know that but they are not the alpha and the omega of all things free/libre or social media. Ten years ago I would not even imagine something like this is now would exist.

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          You can speculate another platform might come up that some hardcodes in it the impossibility to deplatform other instances, but all I’m saying is that Lemmy and Piefed will not do it.

          But even then, it’s a stretch because the tools required to remove seriously illegal content are the part of the same tools that would function as defederation tools. So it probably can’t be hardcoded out.

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            this is not about coding. I don’t want the code to make it impossible. I had a longer discussion with someone else that fleshes it out more but its more about general policy. defederation certainly has to be possible because of laws and liability.

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                yeah. that basically goes with what I like. I do hope the software allows for more and more nuance with control of content for the user though. Like I blocked a domain and found out that blocks basically all the users and all the communities from the domain. I am holding out hope those will be seperated out so you can block users and communities seperately. I think many improvements will come because some amazing people have already done some amazing things.