Who says this will be a "bad look", some leftist muricans? The world doesnt revolve around them, and if they dont like it, they can block any instance that they dislike. Thats the whole point of federation. The fediverse doesnt belong to any specific group, it legally belongs to everyone (AGPL).

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meet: the media

alt right twitter clone "mastodon" licensed to trump. One of mastodon's key features is the ability to spread out over a range of servers in a similar fashion to limewire, helping to avoid takedown

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

For now the media is completely ignoring the fediverse. If they start talking about it, then people will get curious and at least some will investigate for themselves. Dont forget that trust in media is at an all-time low.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with this, and I think hand-wringing about shitty people using software and the possible ensuing moral panic in media is pointless. You can make it a bit more situationally inconvenient like you do with the hard-coded slur filter, but ultimately It's not something you can prevent when you're creating free communication tools.

Provide a free tool to enable decentralized communication.
Prevent adoption of your tool by people whose ideologies you consider dangerous.

As a software engineer, those two goals are fundamentally at odds- you cannot accomplish one without compromising the other. Therefore I think the onus is on a community of admins and users to moderate, make careful federation choices, and to promote Lemmy and the fediverse to their own circles. You can't short circuit the hard work of community growth and management with software design alone.