Because if they're let be a lot of people won't migrate. If they're 502, 401, 404, or just broken (no connect) those stubborn people will be forced to pick a new home or give up on lemmy.
RevolutionCentral84
joined 2 weeks ago
It’s their computers, their network storage, their internet hosting costs - they can do as they please. So too can you, e.g. move elsewhere, or even spin up your own instance. This shit gets expensive though, and people have irl jobs as well - this is VOLUNTEER efforts on their part!?!?
This is a weak ass excuse to cover for them, they opened their doors to the internet. They've very deserving of the criticism, and anything else they get as a result. That card is only justified if it were their computer at home. Arguing for private property rights elsewhere is corpo simping.
Be the change that you want to see in the world. And then watch as others are similarly not impressed.
Direct actions against them are also fair too. Don't just boycott, bring them down. We don't need people to make new servers to combat idiots like these, we need them to take down or sabotage the bad servers to limit the pool to ones that are decent.
I for one do not believe any person should be just allowed to operate a business without consequence, same goes for server hosting. If someone chooses to rip them out from under you, you probably deserve it.
We need to really encourage people to stop donating to them too, don't just migrate elsewhere hit them where it hurts. No donations they can't pay the server bill and go out of business.
They're not though, they're making excuses to make their restrictive policies seem more reasonable. They need to be made an example of for all the other fascists looking to get into fedi or host their own sites. Make examples out of services, don't just let someone have a business or site because it's theirs.
Those people who would go back to Reddit will do that already anyway, hell they probably already have. How many dead and inactive or barely active accounts are there here? Pulling the plug on instances who act pretentious sets the example for others looking to host their own services and if the people who never were committed choose to leave let them leave. They didn't want to be here in the first place.
Admin culture is rotten to the core, and we need people to cull these rotten pretentious admins or it'll get worse.