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[Vote] guess I gotta make a post for this over here. Do we defederate with exploding-heads.com (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by chalkman@sh.itjust.works to c/agora@sh.itjust.works

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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.

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[–] Hagarashi8@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

If it would be nice if it would be just one or two unintentional offending posts, but there's a lot of examples even in the post, where it's clear that they want to offend people, and i would like to keep this place away from intentionally offending content.

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

If you want to be protected from hateful people, use beehaw. I came to ShitJustWorks specifically because they don't block instances at a whim.

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[–] Hagarashi8@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

This instance is not very different for lemmygrad in terms of how hateful they are and lemmygrad is defederated, so see no reason why this one shouldn't be defederated.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

From what I understand, Lemmygrad has been widely defederated because their members tend to troll and brigade other instances. Apart from 1 user earlier today, I have yet to see evidence that's happening with exploding-heads (yet)

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago

They were defederated because The Dude decided to make it so at inception and they never gave a real explanation as to why, so it's not a very good example.

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