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A plea to @TheDude, please make a server-wide announcement that a defederation vote is happening! (sh.itjust.works)

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

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I'd like to ask for @TheDude to make a server-wide announcement, visible to all members of this instance, that a binding vote about defederation is currently taking place.

Without knowing what the Lemmy UI allows, I was hoping for a text similar to the one informing new users that email verification is currently enabled. Here is what I would like the announcement to entail:

"A binding vote to defederate from another instance is currently taking place in /c/TheAgora. Should the vote be accepted, no users of sh.itjust.works will be able to access the defederated instance or interact with users of that defederated instance anywhere on Lemmy. Should the vote fail, the instance to be defederated remains federated, its content may still be shown on the home feed of sh.itjust.works and the users of that instance may still participate in discussion on this instance."

I am of the very strong opinion, that no vote should be binding, unless it was announced early enough to all members of this instance! This vote will have instance-wide consequences, the fact that it is taking place needs to be broadcasted beyond this community!

Edit: fix typos (again)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, having people come in and vote who didn't take part in the discussion can be problematic as they'll have a pretty shallow understanding of the topic and the arguments for and against.

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

This seems like a rash generalization. I'm sure there's plenty of people who can understand the concept without reading everyone else's opinion on it.

Besides, we shouldn't try to limit voting on topics that affect everybody to just the people that spend their days arguing on here. This has a server wide impact and should be announced server wide.