Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork

  • 5 Posts
  • 244 Comments
Joined 9 months ago
cake
Cake day: March 4th, 2024

help-circle









  • Whilst that does create a more pleasant atmosphere, it also creates echo chambers and I believe that’s not a good thing.

    I try to only block those who are explicitly being antagonistic, rather than just those whom I disagree with.

    It would be great if Lemmy had a way to tag a user, so you could tag a borderline account, then decide after several interactions if they warranted blocking.

    I also block several key words, rather than accounts.

    I actively search for, report then block spam.








  • The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

    In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

    Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

    Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

    Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

    Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.