There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?
This is manifestly untrue. You can stand up an instance and literally no-one can censor you.
Obviously meant through a regular account on your average instance
And yea you can be censored through defederation
It’s not censorship when I decide I don’t want to host your speech on my site. Censorship is when the government says you can’t host speech at all.
Edit: to elaborate:
If you mail a letter to your local newspaper and they do not run it, that isn’t censorship. If you mail a photograph to a magazine and they do not print it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a clip to a tv station and they don’t air it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a movie to your local movie theater and they don’t show it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a song to your local radio station and they don’t play it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a post to a Lemmy instance and they don’t host it, that isn’t censorship.
Lmao. ‘There is no censorship, you jus have to leave, make your own space and do whatever you want.’
That is censorship.
I run a personal website where I host my resume. Is it censorship that I don’t allow you to post there, either?