Imagine your email program (seamonkey, thunderbird, outlook, etc) decided you shouldn’t get to see emails from black people any more. And never ever told you it made that decision.
They went to great lengths to obscure what they did, reporting it as an “error” rather than admitting to a shitlist - and only they got to decide who/what was shitlisted.
It was a covert attempt to control visible content on lemmy. THAT is why everyone is high hella pissed.
If they said they were doing a “normie safe” interface they woulda just rolled on. But they knew they wouldnt get as many users countenancing that shit so they shoved it in without consent.
Imagine your email program (seamonkey, thunderbird, outlook, etc) decided you shouldn’t get to see emails from black people any more. And never ever told you it made that decision.
They went to great lengths to obscure what they did, reporting it as an “error” rather than admitting to a shitlist - and only they got to decide who/what was shitlisted.
It was a covert attempt to control visible content on lemmy. THAT is why everyone is high hella pissed.
If they said they were doing a “normie safe” interface they woulda just rolled on. But they knew they wouldnt get as many users countenancing that shit so they shoved it in without consent.