I respect the right of the autonomy of instances and like I said, this is something within the domain of their individual moderation decisions, but we do in fact share collective interests, it’s like with federating with facebook, it’s not just a matter of individual instance preferences, anyone who federates with Meta would be blocked by everyone who isn’t because they then become data mining conduits.
This is somewhat similar to the DCMA issue, the copyright trolls are the enemy of all of us and if you’re willing to compromise with them without even a plausible legal threat. Well that hurts the rest of us. You might as well be inviting them to go after the other evil pirate instances.
to my knowledge this is the one instance that isn’t willing to take that stand lol, it should be understand that all instances in the federation share a common interest to protect their users against copyright trolls
that may technically be true, but I think people should be more willing to take a stand, and not just pre-emptively bow down to the copyright trolls, because it’s basically legally unenforceable especially the larger this the federation gets
I’ll give them credit that they didn’t defed the entire instance and I guess it’s their server their rules
What an absolutely cowardly move. It’s one thing to not allow piracy on your own server, that’s you’re right, but to prevent your users from accessing communities on other servers? Way to give in to copyright trolls without even being asked. I would understand even if they received some kind of Cease and Desist. It doesn’t seem like it, it seems like they’re just willing sycophants who will probably federate with Meta at first opportunity.
unlike… Great Britain, which acquired and lost an empire, Russia never had an identity separate from empire
No, Great Britain is literally an Empire that began with the English Colonization of Wales and Scotland, they still Occupy and have client states all over the place.
The reason Russia is “obsessed” with Ukraine is because that’s where it has always gotten it’s grain,
This is no defense of Russia but this idea they are just so evil but europe is so good while they drown migrants at sea is absolute rubbish.