My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there’s little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt
Aye and nays pls
Edit: putting the screencaps I posted below here for clarity
I should probably put a content warning so
CW: homophobia, transphobia, and just being a shithead.
Edit 2: let’s try not to downvote people just saying nay. Unless they are making bad faith arguments we should respect their opinions even if we disagree.
Edit 3: Imma be real with y’all, this has been a real shitshow. We gotta work out some kinda single voting infrastructure because the ayes and Nays isn’t efficient at all.
Aye
I guess I’ll be one of the first.
Nay, for now.
Defederation should be the last option. After we have exhausted all other options. Because it’s the exchange of ideas, and exposure to other viewpoints, that helps reduce bigotry and hatred.
I’m well aware that a fascist is gonna fascist, no matter what someone tells them. There is no reasoning with them or trying to have a discourse with them because they only want to frustrate you. Those users should be blocked, or better, banned from our instance if possible. But there will be other users of that instance who are regular folk who simply like the idea of free speech. They should not be cut off and left to be turned by the fascists.
Nay. Just block the instance for your own account if you feel offended. I wholeheartedly agree with you on the examples you’ve shown us. However, this does not warrant censorship for one. And on the other side, if no one is able to convince them due to deplatforming, things won’t ever get better. Thus: Nay.
Can whole instances be blocked on Lemmy? I thought only users/communities were possible atm.
They cannot
Things will get better if they can’t share their message all over the place though.
A good example of that is Maxime Bernier (leader of the PPC,a political party in Canada) who has seen his support disappear after media stopped having the “obligation” to cover him because of election rules. His message lost its reach and now he’s doing live feeds in front of a couple hundreds instead of thousands.
Why wait until it becomes an issue instead of taking preventive measures if we’ve seen it becomes an issue on many platforms?
Oh, you’re making this same argument here as well.
This should be easy, I’ll just copy-paste my replies since you are also copy-pasting your replies (which is a little weird and sus).
Bernier and the PPC is an entire political party running for an election, not an internet community on a niche website that barely gets 20 different users.
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Aye. Don’t platform dog whistling.
Edit: Actually I had an experience as a result of exploding-heads because I was looking for an Oregon community and came across their oregon one (archive link), which included demonizing homeless and trans people. I ended up blocking it. This isn’t just a bandwagon. I don’t want others on this instance to be lured into those hateful rabbit holes. I ended up joining the PNW community on lemmy.world
Aye.
After reviewing the instance myself, their federation creates risks for this server falling afoul of the Criminal Code of Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Act.
I understand defederation is a nuclear option, and wait anxiously for improved tools for users to block posts from entire instances if so desired, but I see no benefit in our being federated with this specific instance.
Aye
Aye
Nay. I don’t like what they’re doing over there, but I don’t think defederating is the right thing to do.
Other people have already said what I was thinking: “Defederation should be the last option”, “You have a block list, curate your own filter bubble”, “we ourselves have felt what it is like”, etc.
Nay.
Having shitty opinions is not an adequate basis to defederate them. I believe defederation should be a last resort.
There is a very clear way to justify defederation. Namely, if another instance is preventing our instance from flourishing. But unless the server is actively causing harm to our users and communities, why is it necessary? Simply block them if you want.
When people ask me why we defederated them, I would like to have a good answer.
Nay
I think Contextual Idiot said it best - ‘Defederation should be the last option. After we have exhausted all other options. Because it’s the exchange of ideas, and exposure to other viewpoints, that helps reduce bigotry and hatred.’
That only works if the other party is open to the exchange of ideas and doesn’t just double down instead.
Do we really need to wait until it becomes a major issue or can we just learn from all other platforms that lost control and take measures before that happens?
Ironic hearing that from you.
I know from experience that you personally are not at all open to exchanging ideas.
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Case in point.
The same group that spam downvotes anybody they disagree with accusing others of not being open to the exchange of ideas… 👍
pret much
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Aye
No, if the users are spamming this server then block them. I don’t like the idea of blocking jerks just cause they’re jerks on their own server
They’re not just jerks on their own server and the goal is to prevent the jerkification of our instance over time.
Aye
Aye.
I had given my reasons previously, but I prefer not to platform bigotry.
If there was a way to reason against this kind of thing, reason could be used.
It can’t.
Aye, after seeing the pictures this instance could very easily get into trouble for hosting that kind of content. Keep in mind that the site is not hosted in the US, but Canada.
