Shikadi

Edit: I somehow failed to copy and paste

~~>No, I do not care to and why would I?~~

No, I do not care to and why would you do that?

Let's not be like Reddit and comment essays without reading the article. That's why. You don't even know what you're arguing for if you don't look at it.

If I have to take extraordinary steps here to see it here, isn't that on me? Isn't the apparatus doing what it is supposed to be doing if I seek out a thing and find it?

It's been all over my all feed personally, maybe you just don't pay attention to where content is coming from?

going out of your way to find if there is something objectionable anywhere

See above

because other people might visit there directly instead of through federation

See above

Therefore, due to that situation, they should not have an DNS entry so you work on their Registrar to "deplatform" them.

No, I believe the internet is the utility. Unless actual crimes are being committed, they can have their websites. The key difference here is lemmy.sdf.org is relaying the posts from its own server, and therefore participating in spreading harmful disinformation. It's not like a telephone company that lets anyone call, it's like a newspaper that published anyone's articles, or a bulletin board at the library that doesn't moderate what's there.

I did read the FAQ before asking this, I did not take it to mean it's a policy of the server not to defederate.

Why does everyone keep thinking this is about political views?

Is that a policy of this instance?

You're reading the situation wrong. Go to those instances and read what's there, it's not about free speech, it's active disinformation campaigns and propaganda. I would feel the same if it was extreme leftist propaganda. It's not about creating an echo chamber. I respect the right to free speech, but that isn't the same as allowing people a platform to systematically organize hate using falsified information. This is a situation where silence is complicity. Their instance continues to exist without us, their free speech continues, but by remaining federated we are giving them a platform.

It's not political difference, it's disinformation and propaganda. Just look, even if you're conservative you should be able to see how messed up it is unless you lack critical thinking skills