I don't see why we'd need it. Anyone who makes an account on "aussie.zone" is probably not worth interacting with, and they can make an account on another instance. It's just full of white supremacists, like that one guy who kept showing up here and saying he was Aboriginal, but regurgitated every single right wing racist talking point about how the non-whites are inferior. Any "australia" comm will be a right wing cesspit, because "loving your country" over here often means that you're a shithead racist who acts more like an American than an Australian.
This guy is deeply unserious, but the general userbase seems much less bad. I wonder if it would be possible to get them to pressure the admin team to either drop this guy or at the very least keep a lid on this shit.
Wild as fuck mask off chauvinism. This is why I am advocating defederation from that whole instance because that mfer is one of the admins.
I'm from that god-forsaken country and I agree, any Aussie that considers "Australian" to be a part of their personality is an absolute shit removed.
we could always just make them a comm here or on lemmygrad for any of their non-reactionary users I guess if we can't get that dipshit replaced.
I don't see why we'd need it. Anyone who makes an account on "aussie.zone" is probably not worth interacting with, and they can make an account on another instance. It's just full of white supremacists, like that one guy who kept showing up here and saying he was Aboriginal, but regurgitated every single right wing racist talking point about how the non-whites are inferior. Any "australia" comm will be a right wing cesspit, because "loving your country" over here often means that you're a shithead racist who acts more like an American than an Australian.
I haven't browsed in a few months but it was notably less fucked than r/australia, for which I was thankful.
That said, the national brainworms here seep through into everything, lemmy included
This guy is deeply unserious, but the general userbase seems much less bad. I wonder if it would be possible to get them to pressure the admin team to either drop this guy or at the very least keep a lid on this shit.
that would be preferable to defederating for sure.
these other instances sure know how to pick 'em