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> Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit
political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had
nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based
on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing
it. What fucking hate speech, you weasly, lying shitlib. Your kind cheers on
Russian deaths, calling them “orcs”, then you have the audacity to accuse us of
hate speech? Go on, make more orientalist posts about China, and then come back
and lecture us on hate speech. The only “hate speech” I have is the hate for
your dogshit, genocidal politics. Our instance explicitly disallows and bans
bigotry, and he’s going around posting this shit Edit: And thinking about it
more, the admins are basically agreeing going “fuck the devs we would switch off
if we could”, after everything the devs did to placate them, offering to pay for
server hosting, putting them and not us on the reccomended server list,
explicitly pinning posts asking people to go else where, and they’re still
shitting on them for “muh evil tankies!!!”. The devs should have never listened
to these whining liberals, and I think should maybe defederate from beehaw
themselves like holy fuck you can’t trust liberals for anything
Why not let the users choose whether they want to see “hate speech” or “bigotry” by themselves?
You have to be very naive to trust others’ own statement of something else being “hate speech” or “bigotry”, most of the time they are just referring to something that hurts their worldview and/or political loyalties. I understand if mods ban individuals with a certain behavior if they want to keep politically homogeneous communities, it’s totally understandable, but, banning entire instances? Why? Unless you’re getting raided or flooded I don’t see a reason why.
I think all this open hostility fosters a culture of censorship and isolation harmful for the Fediverse. Users shouldn’t let admins censor content. Admins wanna play make believe thinking they are Facebook or Twitter. I personally will delete my user from any instance defederating without a valid reason (security, spam, CP, etc.)