This whole free speech moderation discussion reminds me why I push for robust and fully-configurable opt-in censorship features for #FOSS projects

@realcaseyrollins free speech is about choice, not making people listen to you, and not censoring you from people who want to hear you... its about choice to say what you want and hear what you want.... so we agree on basically.

@freemo Exactly! For example I don't have qualms with #Lemmy having a word banning feature. In fact, after I heard about it, I called for a similar feature to be added to the #Fediverse. But it should have been configurable and opt-in rather than hard-coded.

@realcaseyrollins Agreed. Similarly I dont mind mastodon instances having server-level blacklists, but I do feel users should have the option of opting out of any server suspensions in place, just as they can add their own personal suspensions to the list.

Censorship isnt censorship unless someone else is enforcing it on you.

@freemo I could see some scenarios where that goes wrong. For instance, let's say rage.love blocks nnia.space because they start letting people post cheesy pizza, and that's illegal in rage.love's jurisdiction. If you let users bypass that block, the instance will be downloading illegal content against their will

(Or at least that's how it works on #Mastodon, I think #Pleroma actually just loads remote images and media from the instance rather than pulling it all and downloading it first)

@realcaseyrollins True, though in an ideal world (The legal world isnt always ideal) it would be the user who bypassed the block who is responsible, not the server which put reasonable protections in place to identify and make clear the fact that the server had inappropriate content.

@freemo True. I feel like how #Pleroma seems to handle media is pretty close to that

@realcaseyrollins Pleroma sounds like a nice platform. I need to experiment with it again soon.

@freemo It is very nice, and I especially appreciate how the backend is way faster and lighter than #Mastodon. I still can't get behind the FE (sorry vanilla #Pleroma stans 😅) but it comes with #MastodonFE and #Soapbox is dope

@realcaseyrollins yea the plain FE is a killer for me too, but knowing there are other frontends fixes that well enough id imagine (havent used it to really say but seems like it would)

@freemo I only wish you could configure #MastodonFE to be the default if you want it to be, and it supported emoji reactions.

@realcaseyrollins I was under the impression you could make it the default... that sounds like something that wouldnt be all that hard to hack to be honest.