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r/The_Donald now on Lemmy (edit: not anymore) (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies.

In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit and flush it into our timelines.

The instance-admin of [email protected] did not reply to my message. Big instances seem not to defederate with them.

The new TD may not be a success, the point is not to give Nazis a platform like it is happening now. Fans of TD are racists.

Where are the instances that show face against racism?

edit: to contact the admins: @donut @TheDude @smorks

edit2: @TheDude deleted the community :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an absolute lie that they are just concerned about hatespeech -- albeit one that the admins themselves very actively promote. They pretend to be ideologically neutral, even going as far as saying "beehaw is just a collection of individuals", an ironically Thatcherite statement that suits them quite well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty big accusation. I don't have enough information to say one way or the other and have just read a handful of posts from the Beehaw mods, so I'd appreciate some context and direct evidence if there is any. From what I can tell, they've never pretended to be ideologically neutral, and seek to actively defend minority rights and push back against what they view as fascist movements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thankfully they had the evidence pinned for some time:

Beehaw is a community of individuals and therefore does not have any specific political affiliation.

Later:

Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it.

And there's more but you can just read it yourself:

https://beehaw.org/post/524300?scrollToComments=true

Obviously I support cracking down on hate speech, you can see my activity throughout this thread, which consists entirely of me doing that while taking maybe two or three asides to knock beehaw when someone else mentioned it. What I don't support is taking the absurd position that it's not a political stance.

Of course, this all works as an excellent bit of smoke and mirrors for an audience of credulous radlibs to whom you don't want to confess you are splitting with instances that are decidedly to your left -- such as Hexbear.net , the only instance which actually has site-mandated use of self-identified pronouns, which was put on the blacklist pre-emptively before it had federated with anyone (and it still hasn't) for reasons that the userbase are left to conclude are "hate speech" or its "endorsement".