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Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").

Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.

Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?

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@jkb I agree. I think Federation gives us the ability, like newsgroups, to specify the behaviour we want to see on our servers and exclude/de-federate groups that don't comply with our views.

I think ultimately, there is no way to force (socially or otherwise) a behaviour norm across all federated servers though

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