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  • And it doesn’t really matter if a cis man is “big on abortion” because these laws will never affect him and his body.

    I’m pro-choice but I’ve heard this and many similar things said and it’s such a ridiculous thing to say.

    “It doesn’t really matter what you think about inhumane treatment for XYZ medical condition because you’re not a doctor and you don’t have that condition”

    “It doesn’t matter what you think about banning this important subset of knowledge in K-12 education because you’ve already aged out”

    Believe it or not, things can affect you even if they’re not directly happening to you. People don’t exist in a vacuum.

    Disregarding someone’s opinion has never once changed someone’s opinion.







  • Reposting this in comment from a reply elsewhere in the thread.

    If anything there should be SOME centralization that allows other (known, somehow verified) instances to vote to disallow spammy instances from federating. In some way that couldn’t be abused. This may lead to a fork down the road (think BTC vs BCH) due to community disagreements but I don’t really see any other way this doesn’t become an absolute spamfest. As it stands now one server admin could spamfest their own server with their own spam, and once it starts federating EVERYONE gets flooded. This also easily creates a DoS of the system.

    Asking instance admins to require CAPTCHA or whatever to defeat spam doesn’t work when the instance admins are the ones creating spam servers to spam the federation.