Not if the language is standardized from the start.
Not if the language is standardized from the start.
An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.
Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.
Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.
Do you also urge your e-mail provider to block e-mails from Meta for all users?
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I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Who is the judge of these blocklists?
The Ministry of Truth, of course.
Yeah, I know that and how the same people who support defederation love to complain about Gmail and Outlook blocking their home server.
E-mail is also a federated protocol. Imagine if every time you wanted to send an e-mail, you had to check whether your provider likes the recipient’s provider and if not, create an account at the recipient’s provider (if that’s even possible).
What exactly is the problem with a bigot replying to you if you don’t see the reply?
Also, they can see the content even if you defederate, because it’s public.
Alright. To quote your original comment:
Yes, and thus you have one giant mega community in which every bigot can access anyone and everyone else.
How would removing defederation result in a situation where “every bigot can access anyone and everyone else” if user-level instance blocking was still a thing?
All I’m trying to say is that if you don’t have the privilege of having configuration access to a network, you can’t “just” host an instance, contrary to your argument that anyone can host an instance for just a little money.
Your original point was that a fediverse without instance blocks would be bad, which is irrelevant to the post because the OP is not advocating for a fediverse without instance blocks:
If you just buy a computer, you can run a Lemmy instance on it, but there will be no way to connect to it from outside your local network, making it pretty much useless. If you want it to work as an actual server, as far as I’m aware, you need to configure the router through which it’s connected to the internet to allow this.
But the OP specifically talked about how the new ability to block instances can replace defederation, so it’s clear what they had in mind.
Sure, the computer itself is cheap, but it’s useless without having your own house where you have access to the router configuration.
Defederation is done by the instance administrator and affects all users. Instance blocking is done by the user and affects only them.
The part where you need to be rich enough to run a server.
How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.