Draconic NEO

People will deny this but this is the only real reason for doing that. The other reason is copying apple, which isn’t really another reason as apple removed it for the first reason. Fairphone just went the extra mile to claim that headphones are wasteful, in essence they’re making an excuse to cover up their reason why and also trying to force others to do it as well.

I’ve heard that it’s considered click fraud and that the advertisers sometimes Force the site to pay them back possibly a little bit extra as a fine.

Not too sure though. Personally I don’t really use it because the adblocking structure I have set up isn’t really compatible because it has multiple layers. I block the ads over the network through a network-wide firewall, I also block them through portmaster on my computer, and finally I have uBlock Origin in my browser. I also have adnauseam alongside of it and I turn off ublock origin for the sites that I want to autoclick ads on but almost none make it through the multilevel network filtering.

More specifically I would recommend adnauseam since it’s extra punishing to aggressive advertisers by clicking the ads automatically.

Maybe there should be a test to see if the other instance is responsive and if it isn’t display a de-federated warning banner and maybe highlight the usernames from that instance in Red to show that they’re not available from this current instance.

I would disagree with that analogy, de-federation is a form of censorship because of the affects it has on registered users. It prevents users from accessing resources if they are on Beehaw. That analogy only works if Beehaw users could still interact with the de-federated communities but they are prevented from doing that.

Sure they can make a new account but the whole idea of Fediverse was to not have to make 20 accounts for different services, so if you signed up to Beehaw you are effectively censored and you’ll need to make a new account.

So it very much is censorship, maybe not for us outside of Beehaw but certainly for the ones in Beehaw.

and should not have the capability of overriding what they and their userbase want to do.

I disagree, the whole point of Federation is to not fracture user-bases across platforms and if you don’t like it, then don’t join the Fediverse. Want a heavily moderated platform where for whiny b＊tches where you must always agree? Make something that isn’t federated (I won’t mention the ones I know of because I don’t want to support them, but plenty of platforms decided to do this). Federation is about connectedness, that means people are going to disagree. Defederating hurts users by doing the thing that federated services is supposed to prevent, causing fragmentation.