they need full defederation

but then I can’t come and discuss the topic with you at all

I saw a post like you describe, but I think it was about harming not simply “people who are different” but criminals who abuse children. Throughout history such criminals were often punished severely with imprisonment or worse.

So, we aren’t able to have any discussions to try to clarify things with defederation. That to me is one issue.

The other is I like to post random things that are kind of “neutral”, like I was wondering what masks are recommended for wildfires or about how to improve lung health if you get exposed to toxic fumes, which I would presume most people might be interested in discussing: https://exploding-heads.com/post/161502?scrollToComments=true

I guess that’s been raised on a github issue (see carbon’s comment in this post) so it’s just waiting on someone to code it I think

that’s probably true, I guess from what I was seeing, a lot of the defederation questions didn’t come down to legality but other disagreements about content

thanks for adding it on github, I’m glad to see some progress in the discussion

looks like we just need someone to code it and it would become an available tool

I’m curious then on who would want to use the tool(s) if and when implemented: perhaps that discussion could be posted about on various instances that are currently totally defederated with certain platforms?

maybe the “instances” page could also have a list for “soft defederated” instances?

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)

sheldon brown’s site has some articles for beginners and for repairs, I feel like a basic maintenance article should be there somewhere or on a search engine: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/beginners.html

the scope of “basic” to me feels like it expands at times, but if you read around you can probably find different ideas

I don’t think arson is a reasonable hypothesis

so, it could just be multiple people spread out? I’m not saying this is the case, however I guess other people have been speculating about this:

The raging wildfires in Alberta in the run-up to the Canadian province’s election have fueled claims across social media that the blazes were set intentionally to disrupt the voting process or for other political purposes

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alberta-wildfire-surge-sparks-unproven-200435924.html

any evidence arson is involved