Comment by smcl
3 years ago
Someone on one server trying to get a user on another server is maybe a bit much, but I don't know the content of the posts in question. For me it'd have to be something pretty extreme to take those actions, otherwise if I saw something that irritated me I'd just consider ignoring or blocking that person depending on the severity.
Remember though that the war is a pretty delicate subject and that a position that from your perspective seems perfectly peaceful could be seen differently by others. So to a German the message "no weapons to Ukraine!" could be seen as de-escalatory, but to a Ukrainian it could be seen as a betrayal or it may remind them of bad faith pro-Z/Putin trolling even if that doesn't describe you or your intent whatsoever.
Barring context, I'm going to guess that this was simply regular users on chaos.social ticking the box in the reporting interface that forwards the report to the originating server - an option that's vital in a federated system when reporting anything that you see as bad enough rather than just a violation of your own instances rules, but of course will be used for things not against either instances rules all the time on any larger instance.
> Remember though that the war is a pretty delicate subject
That’s good advice for a dinner party, not a valid defence of censorship on a social network.
If you want your message to be heard, you're going to think about how someone will respond to what you have to say. This isn't unique to the fediverse, to social networking or even to the internet - this is just how humans interact.
If you want to just run your mouth and then complain about censorship when you get booted for violating someone's TOS or pissing off a mod, go nuts. No skin off my nose.