Top 10 Moral Issues with Fediverse Ban Evasion Compared to Regular Ban Evasion

The Top Ten

  1. Due to the structure of the Fediverse, what some call "bans" are conflated with what the Fediverse dubs as defederation, meaning "bans" are technically not bans

  2. On most Fediverse websites, what could be called being banned is often mutually exclusive from any terms of service

  3. Most Fediverse websites don't have terms of service to begin with, meaning the ethical intricacies of being banned are not publicly defined

  4. Most people who set out to issue bans in the Fediverse are false delegates and aren't the rightful owners of the websites where they happen, invalidating the so-called bans

  5. When you use one Fediverse website to interact with another, you aren't interacting with that website but a copy of its data, making it not technically considered ban evasion

  6. Many of the actions referred to as Fediverse website bans don't actually bar your ability to use them, calling into question the accuracy of calling them bans

  7. The Fediverse's modlogs are supposed to present the final say on disciplinary measures, but not every so-called ban shows up there, which means a person is not banned by its own logic

  8. Every rule of thumb about circumstances such as a post's invisibility meaning defederation has exceptions, especially when the Fediverse glitches, undermining claims about individual actions

  9. The whole concept of the Fediverse is based on giving power to the people rather than a conventional system of moderators and administrators, implying its designers never intended it to align with classic bans

  10. The way many Fediverse websites forcefully fill your subscription feed with content from communities you might be banned from on other Fediverse accounts suggests they see ban evasion as a non-issue

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  11. When someone can undeniably be considered banned, they don't always know it because it doesn't appear as a notification in their messages like on Reddit

  12. Due to how clunky most sites in the Fediverse are with their controls, people get "banned" or "defederated" by accident all the time, often with the mistake never being corrected

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