• Contextual Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    919·
    2 years ago

    I just don’t get it.

    Block the c/TheDonald community. That’s it. That’s all you need to do.

    When it gets no visits, no views, and only it’s handful of users meme-ing each other, it’ll die. One of the big reasons TheDonald took off on Reddit was because of all the attention it got.

    So, don’t give them attention. Don’t feed the trolls.

    I’m not saying to tolerate neo-nazis. But running from them isn’t exactly a time proven strategy, either. They will exist, and it’s up to all of us to remind them that their views are garbage.

          • Contextual Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            181·
            2 years ago

            I guess to some people, tolerance is conditional on whether you agree with what they said.

            I’m not going to tolerate neo-nazis over here. I’m going to call out any of their shitty views and takes. Because they aren’t going away. Racism didn’t die, white supremacists didn’t fade away. Folks like to think they came back with Trump, but guess what? The call was coming from inside the room. It was always there, it was just taking a nap and waiting.

            Cutting them off will just put them back into waiting mode, ready to pop up and spread their shit again. We, the society we, need to push back against their shit to keep regular folk from falling for their lies. It’s not going to be easy, and it’s certainly not a one person job. All of us need to do what we can, even if it’s just a downvote.

            Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to unblock TheDonald to see what’s worth downvoting.

            • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPEnglish
              81·
              2 years ago

              Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to unblock TheDonald to see what’s worth downvoting.

              I peeked at it earlier. Honestly, really isn’t anything at all of value in there.

              I mean, seriously- it’s just a bunch of really crappy news posts… the kind that looks more like spam then news.

              • Contextual Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                142·
                2 years ago

                Yeah, it was sad. One dude shouting to the void, basically. If that’s all it takes to get an instance defederated, then the Fediverse is doomed to be small oases in an ocean of fear and hatred.

                • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPEnglish
                  111·
                  2 years ago

                  Fediverse is doomed to be small oases in an ocean of fear and hatred.

                  Tell me about it.

                  I don’t think many people realize how little effort it would take me, to go and create a bot that just creates accounts on their instance, and then posts pro-trump things on other instances.

                  Let that run for, oh. a day or two, and I imagine that would be the end of federation for everyone.

                  • N0tTheBees@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    31·
                    2 years ago

                    I heard there is the option to enable captcha in the new 0.18 version, so there should be some protection soon.

                    edit: I had it the wrong way around and the removed captcha in 0.18 to reimplement it in a future version

                • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  102·
                  2 years ago

                  I specifically choose instances based on their instance block list. If they block a lot of instances, I don’t consider them. My ideal ones are the ones that are a bit free and yet are well connected, but sometimes well connected means “allied to the mass defederators” because people in general become super compliant in the face of isolation.

                  Sh.itjust.works may start banning communities to regain federation to Beehaw, and then Beehaw will ask that sh.itjust.works defederate a “wrong” instance or two, and by the time we know it, we’ll all be banning the same instances, and we’ll be a cute little echo chamber of “tolerance”.

                  By that same measure, I usually avoid any instance of community that claims to be a “safe place”. They’re the likeliest to always be attacking others because that’s how you stay safe, through unending violence.

            • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
              81·
              2 years ago

              I guess to some people, tolerance is conditional on whether you agree with what they said.

              how is downvoting related to tolerance?

              • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPEnglish
                82·
                2 years ago

                You literally downvoted him, NOT for the content inside of the comment he made- but, because he chose to voice his opinion.

                That is the definition of intolerance, towards any viewpoint that does not specifically agree with yours.

                His comment, that you disagreed with:

                I just posted my comment in the Lemmy.ml thread, so we’ll see how THAT goes…

              • Contextual Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                13·
                2 years ago

                I owe you an apology, @sexy_peach@feddit.de . I didn’t mean to direct that comment only to you, but I see how it came across that way.

                Upvotes and downvotes don’t have modifiers that let you say whether you agree or disagree, whether you think the comment is relevant, or whether you appreciate that someone took the time to respond but you disagree with their points. They’re too broad.

                So without further information, like a reply, no one can really know why an upvote or downvote was cast.

                So, would you care to discuss what I wrote in reply to your post?

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          51·
          2 years ago

          Did you get told about the “paradox of tolerance”?

          People need to chill a bit. The defederate hammer is being thrown around a lot lately without allowing admins time to respond. One moron setting up a community named thedonald isn’t the same as that same Reddit community seeing up base here.

          Seems like it’s gone now either way? I can’t find it.

    • crowlemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1110·
      2 years ago

      And the same goes for anything else. You don’t like r/politics being a bastion for US democrat biased ans bullshit propaganda? Block it. You don’t want to see republicans talking about being republican (the horror), block it.

      And don’t pretend we all need to agree on everything and be as shittily outraged with the next US centric Google manipulated narrative.

      • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        102·
        2 years ago

        Same. I’ve blocked like 50 communities so far. Yet I don’t go around calling to defederate because “omg I just don’t like US news, US has committed atrocities, anyone who posts a US news will get their server defederated!”. Block and keep walking. Life’s too short to spend it crying about the perfectly evitable.