The comment in question:
“To everyone arriving here from /all, remember that this is a .ml community when you attempt to engage in good faith.”
Edit: Sorry for the double post - I just got back after being gone all day and didn’t realize someone else had made a post about my comment! There’s a bit of discussion here so I was going to leave it, but if the mods would rather delete it, feel free!
Instances aren’t precisely a house but they aren’t fundamentally public spaces either.
They’re privately owned and operated and while they provide public interface we’re all operating in a networked system of walled gardens providing a service.
You can allege the admins and devs are being hypocrites all day with every action found in the modlog, but there is still a limit to what people will tolerate when they’re providing a service.
Maybe there’s some misunderstanding here. I’m saying it doesn’t make sense to compare it to a house because of the exposed public nature of it, not based on public or private ownership of it. The house argument applies to a private space where one has sanctity, security, and privacy. It would be laughable to argue it for an open field even if you do own the plot.
Lemmy servers are more like those empty field plots than a house you’d expect safety and privacy from, see where I’m getting at here? If not that’s okay. I’m used to not being understood by people, either unintentionally or intentionally.
I get what you mean. Although I know firsthand that in America open fields are guarded heavily, often violently. (Former government health department inspector.) Even approaching the fenceline without explicit permission is unwise for how sour a response it can create. I am beyond metaphor though with this.
That is true, many people can get violent even over something that isn’t their house. I think another important factor is also how other people empathize with the “victim” as well. If someone was the victim of home invasion people would feel more empathy towards them compared to someone who chased down a person who walked on their empty plot.
No one is challenging their ownership of either properties, but the situations are wildly different.