No one is hiding from problems, but flowers do not grow in a battlefield. They're trampled. You need to have safe retreat, a place to teach, cultivate and grow. Inclusion means ensuring safe harbor through the exclusion of bad actors. I'm here now in the trench, but I do not have to live in the trench. Don't you get that? I have a place to return to, a place to regroup, discuss, laugh, be marry in dark times. What you're advocating for is a horizonless battlefield, with no end in sight. An endless sea of torment and combat with no safe harbor. And for what? "The market place of ideas'"? What a joke. What a dated and dead concept.

The notion of a “free market of ideas” is as mythical as the notion of a free market of goods. Both conjure up an image of a bazaar in which many small producers sell their wares on a more or less equal footing. In fact—be it commodities or commentary—to reach a mass market you need substantial sums of money to buy exposure and distribution. Those without corporate media connections end up with a decidedly smaller clientele, assuming they are able to survive at all.

-- Michael Parenti

This idea applies to these modes of communication as well. The ideological expression of an instance is at it's core the ideological view of it's administration in the abstract. There is no equal footing. Zionist instances will ban you on Zionist grounds. Creating an "inclusive" space for Zionists and their cohort. You can not "win" a debate in their realm as they always have the administration on their side.

The same is true for db0. This motion is simply the negation of the contradiction between wanting to maintain an inclusive and welcoming space for Palestinians, anti-zionists of all stripes, Muslim and Arab peoples; and the open federation model of activitypub.

The people who want to get into the trenches will. For those who don't, db0 is finally a safe harbor for those listed above. Free from having their identities, their lives, their humanity debated for the sake of the free market of ideas.

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Its not won't somebody think of the children... Its get this shit out of their face. Block it. Thats the beauty of the fediverse.

The initial point was that younger generations feed off engagements. You block the conversation and it doesn't exist. Its not a matter of closing your eyes to the world. Its closing the gates to the exact statement I made. Does no one understand how the younger generation get the information? Engagement. Was the answer. Failure to allow a platform will stop the spread of the misinformation in the first place.

'Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference'.

E: these people and often misinformation machines are not trying to have a discourse. They are planting propaganda. ie. The qoute above. Stop the shit in your home. End the spread by denying a platform.

E2: I mean. I get what your saying on an institutional level, but fuck that this is a social media instance argument so. My first edit stands.