Adderbox76

You’re describing this like we all, individually, are blocking Hexbear users. That isn’t what happened. They were defederated by a handful of individuals. They were censored. An authority blocking your words from reaching others is censorship.

No it most certainly is not. Not by any legal definition of the word. Preventing people from speaking is censorship. that's all. "forcing people to listen to you" isn't free speech. And I'm not even going to bother going into the fact that free speech is quite LITERALLY in regards to government's and have absolutely nothing to do with private servers like Lemmy instances.

As someone has already mentioned, the right to free speech is NOT the right to an audience. Just because you don't agree with that statement doesn't make it not true. Facts don't give a shit about your opinion.

Why uneasiness? This is federation working exactly how it's supposed to. People are free to spout whatever garbage they want, and no one else is obligated to listen to them if they don't want to.

No one is infringing on hexbears so-called "free speech". They're still free to shout into their megaphone. But the rest of us can close the damn door on them if we don't want to listen. That's quite literally the best of both worlds.

The only people that are "uneasy" are the people who think that "free speech" means being able to force people to have to listen to their bullshit. It's not. Never has been. Never will be.

I for one love how federation tends to sort itself out without stripping away anyone's right to free expression. Hexbear, or whatever instance happens to be controversial at the moment, can still say whatever they want. No one is shutting them down. No one is censoring them. No one is stepping on their rights. The rest of us just have the power to not have to listen to them. It's a great system working exactly as designed and it's absolutely how the future of social media has to be.

GIMP has its share of issues, just like any other software. but it's biggest issue is that somewhere down the line general users got this idea in their head that it was supposed to be a Photoshop clone.

So they go into it with certain expectations and then get frustrated when it doesn't work that way. People like me, who actually learned GIMP before PS, obviously didn't go in with the same bias and therefore have a much better grasp on it.

Gimp is not a Photoshop clone. it's its own piece of kit with it's own design and feature decisions that some may like and others may not. That's life. The developers have no obligation to follow any other software design scheme any more than Sony is obligated to follow LGs TV UI. They're not clones, they're alternatives.

if you think Gimps only function is to copy Photoshop, you're in for a bad time. If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias,, you'll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.

I'm not excusing Gimps failings. far from it. but I AM saying that half the issue is the Photoshop users thinking that gimp only exists to copy everything from their precious Adobe daddy. And that's simply not true.

Was just coming here to say that. The entire Ethos of Open Source is basically the people owning the digital means of production. So some people really not grasp that?