I saw https://sh.itjust.works/post/27423240 that states that somehow a mod here is blocking certain posts on that community for this instance somehow. Idk how federation modding works.
Seems bad to selectively cut posts. That seems a doorway to building a bubble for communities or even curtailing discussion about topics, even in other instances. Since we’re federated it should be all or nothing; either defederate if the entire site is unmodded/has goblin users/hosts views against our guidelines or block the just community if it’s against our guidelines if the rest of the place is aight.
That specific community seems to be about “NATO warmongering in a cheeky way” if I had to summarize it in a few words. I can see it is untenable for some but I can’t see why we need to be shielded from selections of that, individual users can just block it if the community’s (hopefully somewhat insincere) thirst for blood is too much.
In short, I oppose our admins moderating other instances’ communities. If they’re against our guidelines block the community or defederate; if they good under our guidelines then just leave it even if it’s “just a hair under crab”, to use a metaphor
That thread should be a lesson in learning not to take things at face value or believing what you read.
What actually happened, is that 6 months ago, a poster that is popular in NCD posted a meme that conflates Hamas and Palestinians, and in effect blames them for their own genocide.
As a result of that post, the poster in question was instance banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone.
That’s it.
As a result of that ban, no further content from the poster in question made its way to lemmy.blahaj.zone.
Yet the mod of NCD incorrectly assumed that it was only NCD content that was being removed, and rather than investigate or contact someone from blahaj.zone to clarify, they went in guns blazing with accusations based on their own misunderstanding. And when I explained the situation, they double downed on the aggression.
And the lesson from this is that whatever else happens, some people will still walk away from this thinking that the mods description of events is true, and blaming us for their fuckup.
If they’re against our guidelines block the community or defederate; if they good under our guidelines then just leave it even if it’s “just a hair under crab”, to use a metaphor
This is literally how it works.
Damn I do feel bad, basically asked you to interact with the mod there and holy hell that mod was rude af to you.
Sorry again, but thanks for taking the time to investigate and confirming y’all send ‘em to the shadow realm if they’re crabby (and the NCD mod was hella crabby).
Mod handled that super poorly and doubled down on being wrong… Honestly it’s a master class on what not to do.
