A janny is a moderator or admin of a fediverse instance. Many of them will use their position and petty power to defederate individuals or other fediverse instances which contain individuals who get under their skin. When you defederate someone, no one on your entire instance can interact with them again until you remove the defederation.
Sometimes this power is used simply to protect users from seeing illegal or otherwise undesired content. Often times it is used to censor politics the admin does not like. Many times it is used just over personal beefs.
There are hundreds if not thousands of small leftwing instances which have other anti-fascists blocked for "fascism" which usually just means they had a minor disagreement on LGBT rights.
On the other hand there are right wing "free speech" instances which block people and entire instances for making fun of or criticizing the admin.
The end result is a system that create far greater echo chambers than any mainstream social media site.
Earl Turner /
npub1gm…2nff2
2023-03-14 12:28:24
in reply to nevent1q…tcnz
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