Do 8 billions of people using single use plastic have the same impact of 20 billionaires on their yachts? This cannot be that difficult, guys. Billionaires are absolutely a problem but our actions as individuals are extremely important anyway.
That’s not actually correct, it’s not change in individual actions that needs to happen but systemic change. People act in the way that makes sense for them to act given the circumstances they’re in on individual level. What needs to change is the economic system to move away from consumerism, production of disposable goods, planned obsolescence and so on. This can only happen when the economy is publicly owned and directed towards the goal of profitability as opposed to towards creating as much profit as possible for people who own the companies.
Nobody de-federated. People saw that there was a the_Donald community on sh.itjust.works + a lot of people from said server defending it (“just ignore it bro”). That triggered probably bad memories ala spez defending t_D because of “VaLuABlE DiSCuSsIoN”, while they brigaded and harrased countless people during their time on Reddit. Some people got a little bit carried away and demanded de-federation and a couple of trolls throw gazoline in the fire.
This is one of the personal fears I have about society’s where ‘the mob’ decides. Most people haven’t had their fate decided by a mob before and so might not know what this means or how it pans out most of the time.
I believe it is imperative that we have something in place to avoid mob actions - not a central authority per say but possibly a collective code we all believe in and abide by. We could perhaps establish what is (un)acceptable on a fediversal (universal) scale and what is (un)acceptable on a local instances (instances decide this themselves obv.)
In the future we might need Lemmy/ActivityPub to be able to define posts/accounts/communities that are accessible across the Fediverse and those that are only accessible to users of that instance.
Hence we wouldn’t have the problem where for instance: members of one instance think pictures of furries is not NSFW content but members from other instances think it is
Has this ever happened? From what I can tell asking people to fix their issues is the first step, and defederation only happens when they can’t/won’t fix them yet
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