My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there’s little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt
Aye and nays pls
Edit: putting the screencaps I posted below here for clarity
I should probably put a content warning so
CW: homophobia, transphobia, and just being a shithead.
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Our federation? Is that like our Internet?
Aye, and here’s why. Exploding heads are not coming into our space and having discussions in good faith. They are acting as a troll farm and being abusive toward our members, and generally not following the rules of the road laid out for our instance. “Beehaw defederated us and I didn’t like it” isn’t a valid argument as this is a different situation. Beehaw defederated from here because they couldn’t deal with the scale of moderating all the traffic coming from here which including abusive troll accounts. Exploding Heads is going by the alt right playbook and is almost exclusively being abusive, even if it’s a small number of people.
And it is noticable. I see some people arguing that individuals who don’t like that instance should just block it themselves, but that’s not an available function of the threadiverse yet. You’re saying that our server at large should endure abuse coming from that server because someday the functionality may be implemented for individuals to handle it themselves. I don’t think this is a good moderation strategy and will only allow abusive actors to find foothold.
Aye. Cut out the infection before it spreads
I guess I’ll be one of the first.
Nay, for now.
Defederation should be the last option. After we have exhausted all other options. Because it’s the exchange of ideas, and exposure to other viewpoints, that helps reduce bigotry and hatred.
I’m well aware that a fascist is gonna fascist, no matter what someone tells them. There is no reasoning with them or trying to have a discourse with them because they only want to frustrate you. Those users should be blocked, or better, banned from our instance if possible. But there will be other users of that instance who are regular folk who simply like the idea of free speech. They should not be cut off and left to be turned by the fascists.
nay, down vote and move on. if it really bothers you, unsubscribe/block. defederate only if they start brigading and normal mod controls stop working, if it’s just a few bad actors should be easy enough to ban them
Nay. Not as long as they aren’t causing trouble here. By the way, your screenshots show, among others, a user from this very instance pushing back against their narrative, which is exactly what I would ecourage to do. If they start banning people for simply being critical, then we can have the discussion about defederating again.
Nay. Just block the instance for your own account if you feel offended. I wholeheartedly agree with you on the examples you’ve shown us. However, this does not warrant censorship for one. And on the other side, if no one is able to convince them due to deplatforming, things won’t ever get better. Thus: Nay.
Things will get better if they can’t share their message all over the place though.
A good example of that is Maxime Bernier (leader of the PPC,a political party in Canada) who has seen his support disappear after media stopped having the “obligation” to cover him because of election rules. His message lost its reach and now he’s doing live feeds in front of a couple hundreds instead of thousands.
Why wait until it becomes an issue instead of taking preventive measures if we’ve seen it becomes an issue on many platforms?
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Nay. I don’t like what they’re doing over there, but I don’t think defederating is the right thing to do.
Other people have already said what I was thinking: “Defederation should be the last option”, “You have a block list, curate your own filter bubble”, “we ourselves have felt what it is like”, etc.
Nay! This is arbitrary censorship of an entire instance because they host content that disagrees with you. The support for such a measure here is more disturbing than the content itself.
