The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don’t think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches.

Edit: the response on exploding-heads.com to my reporting of transphobia. Courtesy of the “second in command”

  • eta_aquarid@kbin.social
    254·
    2 years ago

    Like I’d hope that we wouldn’t follow in Reddit’s footsteps of tolerating alt-right bigotry

    Defederating isn’t like being fucking censored or whatever; it’s people deciding that they don’t want to be around you

    Basically near-every instance did this for Lemmygrad with zero complaint, so it’s fucking weird that there are so many people complaining now when it comes to an instance teeming with alt-right bigotry

      • Alue42@kbin.social
        71·
        2 years ago

        Do not mistake inconvenience for oppression.

        That is NOT censorship. Everyone on that instance still has every opportunity to say whatever they’d like. Don’t cry over the fact that it’s not reaching as many people as you want it to.

        Obligatory XKCD about this topic.

          • AndyGHKEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            No, needing to make a new account is not censorship, get over yourself.

              • AndyGHKEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                …Because how is it censorship?

                You can literally access all content available on every instance from any account.

                Making an account is free and takes two minutes, I literally just did it.

                You can comment on any content you’re federated with from any account.

                You aren’t being suppressed from speaking at all.

                  • AndyGHKEnglish
                    2·
                    2 years ago

                    Well, no? Because you can still make a new instance to engage with that content? And because you can still see it if you deliberately look for it? Like I literally said?

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yes it did, until media brought attention to it, then they banned The Donald and Metacanada and these users just joined other subs where they spewed their poison with the admin’s blessing in the cases where mods from subs that got banned were also modding other subs that didn’t (metacanada mods also modding Canada).

          • AndyGHKEnglish
            21·
            2 years ago

            Almost like tankie subreddits weren’t gaming the Reddit vote system to push literal propaganda to the front page for years or something

              • AndyGHKEnglish
                31·
                2 years ago

                I mean, yeah, but my point is more that they were uniquely shitty for actively fostering the echo chamber and regularly intentionally breaking containment onto All.

                I distinctly remember in 2016 how many pro-trump posts would pop onto the top of All with thousands of T_D upvotes, because the mods would pin posts they’d want to rally behind to the top of the subreddit. It really wasn’t largely the same content.

                  • AndyGHKEnglish
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    At least they have the courtesy of being disguised. Lol maybe you remember how on the nose the trump-stump posting was.

                    “LOCK HER UP” (6,765 upvotes)

      • eta_aquarid@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        how about that whole span of time that r/the_donald was a subreddit lmao

        edit: it’s not censorship if you can easily move to another instance with little difficulty and just continue from there, with most of the same communities even

        people like you just think someone telling them that they don’t want to hear you is the same as being suppressed