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Your instance won't be affected, except hexbear / blahaj folks won't see each other.

Good for them. Amateur hour over here.

Read the hexbear post in the OP, they explain it pretty well.

What communities exactly have they been detrimental to?

He should probably be wary too.

It’s hosted on AWS, the internets thinks is a US east coast data center.

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Yes, this exactly. I left another instance because of too heavy-handed moderation, don’t really want it again, and especially not over a problem that began when someone didn’t like seeing annoying things in the All feed and Lemmy’s broken sorting.

As could very easily be expected. As has happened before and likely will again. Judging anything based on people upset when you bring up an inflammatory topic about them is no basis for a sound judgement.

We’ve had two other threads that they can easily see and they have not touched (except voting, presumably). That seems like the particular problem was solved.

You were hardly neutral when you made the request in the first place.

Most people didn’t go straight to insulting, they’re a pretty big instance and we would definitely know if they did. One of the reasons we have defederated people before is lack of moderator action, but their mods seem to be pretty on the ball. I’m more offended that Gormandt has posted the same picture several times all over the place as some kind of evidence of a mass issue, than some people being rude on an instance with 25,000.

Maybe, but it’s kind of been the norm every time someone has brought up defederating an instance, because it naturally makes people upset and defensive, since it’s kind of a bigger deal than blocking a community you don’t like in All.

I’d expect it next time too, until Lemmy allows local-only threads. Maybe it’s better to expect human reactions to inflammatory topics.

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They were acting like that in response to a thread where someone asked to defederate with them for petty reasons and their impression that our admin was upset that they’re anti-NATO (a mischaracterization). I’d probably be mad too. I disagree with a knee jerk reaction to a clash of cultures.

That post was deleted by their admin and their admin said to leave it alone, which it seems they did after being told to. Seems worth mentioning.

That post doesn’t bother me at all. Someone talked some shit on their instance in the midst of some drama yesterday, seems like something they should be able to do on their own instance. I do not support defederating over that.

This is going to be doing it through the userspace program. On Windows there is almost always an Nvidia / Radeon / Intel icon permanently hanging out in the system tray. As it mentions, Intel is just enabling what the others already do.

It’s not a bat signal, likely the thread popped up into their “all” feed and a bunch see it at once.

Some of the stuff is because they were already a very established community with their own culture, who has only just recently federated with others. They are bringing their culture, which is full of memes and shitposting, out to where a good portion of normal Lemmy users don’t even know how to post a picture, and it is a lot all at once. It does seem that their admins want to have relatively good citizens, and it seems like most of what Blahaj really cares about is compatible (they are possibly even more extreme with caring about it). Being disruptive in political threads does not seem like a good reason to defederate an instance.

This was essentially how I felt about them before, I had nearly made the first comment in the original thread to say something like “sometimes annoying but their code of conduct seems pretty compatible” - I don’t agree with the original proposal.

I wasn’t impressed by the response from them, although it did seem to be a few users and I’m not sure if we shouldn’t just write it off to the heat of the moment.

Also one of them in the original thread suggested an interesting history podcast about US imperialism (Blowback), the bashing of which I am totally down with.

Glad they mentioned the mode lines. Debian used to give a very scary warning about mode lines destroying your monitor that no other distro even thought to tell you about. Auto configuration of the X server was truly a technological marvel.