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      These assholes came out on day fucking one and did nothing but demonstrate that their goal was to be disruptive trolls. And then they sit there and whine about how everyone else is brainwashed, and nobody wants to listen to alternative points of view. That alternative point of view, apparently being pictures of pig shit.

      And then they are shocked that people think they are assholes.

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      every time a new instance spins up

      To be fair, Hexbear has been around a lot longer than lemmy.ca

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      You defederate or screen all sports content? Is this a personal preference, or do sports subs attract hateful content?

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      You like them posting pictures of pig shit? Real high quality conversation.

      I can deal with them posting links to Lenin or Jacobin or whatever, but they literally just come in and post the same picture of actual pig shit over and over again. These are not people who have any interest in good faith conversation.

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      There’s a certain irony to celebrating the admins building a wall between two communities as “freedom”.

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        If a community exists only to cause issues and inflame culture warrior issues (such as anti-woke,) they don’t deserve to be given an honest chance.

        Honest chances exist for honest people. If they refuse to abide by the common rules of decency, and instead want to treat the place like /b/, we have no obligations to let them be heard.

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        If you think there is anything of value on either of those instances you can create accounts on both and participate directly. That’s what’s great about the fediverse.

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    Was there any vote or announcement about this on lemmy.ca? Or are we hearing after the fact, and on another instance, that our instance has contentiously and quietly defederated from 2 other instances?

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      I understand that defederating is part of running an instance and that decisions are not always clear cut. If I were an admin, I’d report newly defederated instances in a post or something. It doesn’t seem like appreciably more work than what being an admin already entails (which must be a lot!) and makes things transparent. I’m here in the Fediverse because I don’t like what’s going on on the rest of the big tech internet, and I want to get involved in an alternate model. Hearing that a politically aligned instance was silently defederated on .ca reminds me of what I am hoping to distance myself from online versus find more of now. Ditto for the the downvotes without replies. That said, other commenters have helped me see site maintenance as opposed to political orientation reasons that could motivate defederation. On reflection, I think I want to get involved in an expressly curated (in a way that I approve of) and/or pretty transparent Fediverse environment

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        The great thing about the fediverse is that no one can stop you from participating in those instances. You can create local accounts as I have done on several instances. The mobile clients let you switch easily between accounts on different instances

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        I agree! I strongly believe we should be transparent with actions such as defederation.

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    Personally, I’m against defederation for political reasons. This feels like a mistake that will serve only to reinforce echo chambers online.

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      They weren’t “defederated for political reasons”. What they were doing wasn’t good faith political speech. They were trolls who’s only purpose was creating chaos. If you’re really dedicated to their actions this is the fediverse, you can create an account there and read and participate as much as you want. Every user can decide for themselves if there is anything of any value there. I don’t think so so I’ll be staying right here.