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Opt In Soft Defederation? (exploding-heads.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/main

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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/162716

Hello friends, I have been thinking about the defederation issue

I have a satirical post in mind for the subject but a different topic came to mind

what if instead of defederating, a "soft" defederation could be activated, where content basically is not served to users unless they opt in to it

So like say "shhhhhhitjust.works" instance activates "opt in soft defederation". Exploding Heads posts stops showing up on the instance, but users could still navigate to shhhhhhitjust.works/c/[email protected] and choose to subscribe and then stuff would show up

This would allow admins to be able to not promote content they agree with, while allowing users the ability to still interact with content they might approve of agreeing with

thoughts or has someone proposed this already?

we could also call for a new round of soft refederation if this idea is of use to anyone

edit: I suppose I should add I'm not really advocating for soft defederations at all so much as for them over "hard" or "full" defederations as have gone on as they drastically cut off all communication

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[–] TinyPanda 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Freakin joke yall are blocking leftwing instances but not the rightwing ones 😭

[–] carbon_based 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also think that you missed the point of this post. It's about giving the people better tools to choose what they see. That's a meta-discussion, independent of current debates.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

yeah, it's kind of a separate issue

idk I guess I can understand political disagreements, but then I also post about "neutral" things like about health which is kind of for everyone, and defederation really unnecessarily cuts off discussion on topics like that, for example a post on how to "detox" lungs or improve the health of lungs: https://exploding-heads.com/post/161502?scrollToComments=true

So I was asking the question if there is some other possibility between the binary option of federation versus defederation and the idea of a "softer" defederation came to mind. With discussion and considering options, maybe people might come up with other ideas (like people mentioning blocklists as another tool for creating the desired experience)