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Got to love Mastodon (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've always thought that people should be able to hotly debate ideas all they want, but as soon as they leave the ideas out and begin disparaging people, good-bye.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Sure but some communities simply don’t want to be debating all the time and some people refuse to accept that lol like my LGBT friends constantly talk about how exhausting it is. Sometimes they just want to talk about a tv show.

    They basically are tired of constantly justifying their existence, even if the questions are genuine/good faith.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Absolutely. Not everyplace is an appropriate forum for every topic under the sun.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah that’s kind of what I’m driving at. Some folks truly believe all debate must be allowed everywhere “as long as it’s nice.”

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    "Off topic" is a legitimate reason to downvote a post or comment, even one made respectfully and in good faith.

    I do sometimes wish more sites had adopted something like the system Slashdot used, with multiple categories of up or down votes (insightful, informative, off-topic, flamebait, etc.) which users could weight according to their own preferences. The simplistic "either up, down, or neutral" model is a rather blunt instrument.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's great but the talk in this thread isn't about some communities, the demand is that mastodon.world should defederate more.
    I find these opinions kind of antithetical to the whole fediverse idea, if you want a small gated community do your thing, but why should the biggest fediverse instance merrily defederate everything left and right

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