No reason to say they have zero relation. If we consider it a scale of relation between 0 and 100, it’s just as unreasonable to say it has 0 relation as it is to say that they are fully related. My point is that it has some influence.
I already have, Rimu opposes the widespread communist presence on Lemmy and is making tools that make it easier to censor views admins deem unsavory. I even gave you an example of it in practice.
I understand that anyone can block, it’s almost like you’re intentionally missing my point. By deliberately fostering an environment where liberalism is the default, and creating tools to make it easier to shut out minority views entirely, these tools reinforce the dominant viewpoint.
Anyone being able to block doesn’t inherently make liberalism the default. That liberalism is broadly the wider default across the Fediverse is incidental here. Rimu was not specifically holding communism in mind when designing the block functions.
In fact, in regard to discussions on this we have had about mitigation tools, most of it relates to community news spammers, trolls, AI trolls etc. Most of the admin level checks are designed with those types of users in mind.
Liberalism is the default on PieFed because the communists are largely on Lemmy and PieFed is largely made up of those jumping from Lemmy.world. It’s a liberal-dominated space, and as such tools meant to push out minority views will uphold that. If communism were the default on PieFed then these same tools would push out liberalism, but my point is that this isn’t reality.
But we aren’t talking about hypotheticals, we are talking about real views and someone who allows those views to influence their development of FOSS.
Again, no reason to connect Rimus anti-communist position with his stance on how blocking should work. They have zero relation.
No reason to say they have zero relation. If we consider it a scale of relation between 0 and 100, it’s just as unreasonable to say it has 0 relation as it is to say that they are fully related. My point is that it has some influence.
Explain to me how they could be connected please.
I already have, Rimu opposes the widespread communist presence on Lemmy and is making tools that make it easier to censor views admins deem unsavory. I even gave you an example of it in practice.
The blocking tool is not an admin-level tool. Anyone can block.
Would you argue that the anti-AI checks on Piefed constitute an attempt to try to censor communists?
I understand that anyone can block, it’s almost like you’re intentionally missing my point. By deliberately fostering an environment where liberalism is the default, and creating tools to make it easier to shut out minority views entirely, these tools reinforce the dominant viewpoint.
Anyone being able to block doesn’t inherently make liberalism the default. That liberalism is broadly the wider default across the Fediverse is incidental here. Rimu was not specifically holding communism in mind when designing the block functions.
In fact, in regard to discussions on this we have had about mitigation tools, most of it relates to community news spammers, trolls, AI trolls etc. Most of the admin level checks are designed with those types of users in mind.
Liberalism is the default on PieFed because the communists are largely on Lemmy and PieFed is largely made up of those jumping from Lemmy.world. It’s a liberal-dominated space, and as such tools meant to push out minority views will uphold that. If communism were the default on PieFed then these same tools would push out liberalism, but my point is that this isn’t reality.