@BeAware I’m not so familiar with her because I personally haven’t spoken to her. But it strikes me that the Fediverse itself has an internal conflict that has not been addressed.
One one hand, we need safe spaces where people are protected from harm. On the other hand, we need spaces that are both censorship resistant and redundant. The problem is, one person’s safety is another person’s censorship; and another person’s free speech may also cause harm.
Now the only way to allow these two things to happen is to allow for pluralism, and to stop seeing the #Fediverse as a singular space. This is one reason why I now prefer the term #SocialWeb for what I want to be built because what’s at heart here is that when you build an ActivityPub-enabled service, you are not necessarily building for one singular space.
@atomicpoet this is why I try to really emphasize the end user and empowering the end user to craft the experience they want.
I would even go farther than pluralism. It's not this group versus that group and accepting all the different groups, it's giving each and every end user the tools to experience what they want from what's before them.
All too often a lot of these clients forget about that. All too often we focus on instance policies when, again, let's bring it down to the end user.
Give them the tools and they will make the community that works best for them.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
