Gaza war: Israeli tank fire kills five soldiers in north Gaza, military says
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The reported friendly-fire incident in Jabalia is one of the deadliest since the war began.

The reported friendly-fire incident in Jabalia is one of the deadliest since the war began.

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    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate: An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network

      Why doesn’t spamming authoritarian propaganda count? Better to have corporate ads than dictators’ lies.

      • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        Just because you dont like their content doesn’t mean it’s spam. Just filter hexbear posts and grow some thicker skin

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          2·
          6 months ago

          It’s not normal content, it’s propaganda. Whether that’s technically spam or not, it’s disinformation and intentionally corrosive content designed to spread division and hate.

          It’s not about me filtering out their propaganda and creating an echochamber. It’s about resisting propaganda from dictators, and about playing a part in the Fediverse to help it survive and replace corporate social media.

          People checking out Lemmy see Hexbear comments and go back to Reddit or wherever they came from. There are constant threads asking “how can I block a whole instance”.

          • jonne@infosec.pub
            2·
            6 months ago

            You know, you don’t have to be here if you don’t like the instance’s policies. You’re free to defederate yourself.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Having an opinion someone doesn’t agree with doesn’t make it invalid. I’m not an instance admin, so I have no say in who gets defederated, but in this community I welcome all opinions, no matter how popular or unpopular they might be.

        People from democratic countries might call anything that doesn’t agree with their world view a propaganda, yet on the flip side, countries from non-democratic countries might call anything that doesn’t agree with their world view a propaganda. If we can’t discuss our differences, then we are living in a bubble. If someone is never challenged, how can they refine their own position?

        Rhetorical question to think about. Americans are likely to elect self-proclaimed authoritarian in the next election, should everyone defederate from instances that allow their opinions too?

        In any case, this is not a place for this discussion. I would suggest making a post in !home@lemmy.zip.

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’m tolerant of different opinions, authoritarian propaganda isn’t a different opinion, it’s large scale coordinated misinformation. In this case coming from a government that has a long history of brutally killing people with “the wrong opinion”.