Greetings gamers and those who wisely abstain,
It has become clear to us that even in the short while we’ve federated, the situation with sh.itholefor.nazis is entirely untenable and we will be defederating immediately. Multiple instances of ableist and homophobic slurs directed at our users, overwhelming litigiousness against even the most innocuous comments by our users, and just a general ethos of reactionary behavior. We’re done and out.
One of the concerns with embracing TC69 thought on site bans with federation is that the user would basically be just hexbear-side hidden and blocked from our comms, free to post reactionary content without the fear of Lenin behind them. That was a silly concern. We will resume our pre-federation policies regarding site bans.
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The last expansion added lemmygrad, some hobbyists, and a bunch of liberals. The results were mixed but we could live with that I guess. This one exposed us to something resembling old edgy 4chan/IRC style debaters, it's a different sort of user, I haven't seen that style in a long time. We should at least have a deeper look at the instances we want to federate with in the future.
Gotta wonder though.. when there's trolling against trans people even from small alternative communities that are supposed to have more refined 'protest users' against reddit or other media, what's the state of the anglosphere internet in general? Also it's funny how it maps that the countries lemmyverse people dislike happen to be the countries the collective west is in a cold war with right now.