I hope they'll come back soon since I help run a community there !sdfmc@lemmy.sdf.org which is needed to share images of projects on their Minecraft server.

I don't think that's happening any time soon...

I saw through the hypocrisy of most liberals and their desire to support those who seek to exploit them. I think I largely owe that realization to my joining this community, because I probably wouldn't have seen it or would've excused it.

That's probably the ideal outcome, let the people rule themselves instead of being ruled by someone else.

Nope Lemmy refuses all acknowledgement of the existence of site banned users including replies to their comments or posts. Although in delicate situations where I know they could get them I either don't annotate them or add them in as edits later to prevent pinging.

PTB. I wonder if @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca went rogue or if the other admins approve of this. Someone should message other admins like @otter@lemmy.ca or @mp3@lemmy.ca to find out for sure. It's possible if they went rogue and were just doing whatever they could be removed which would be best for everyone involved.

In many ways it was. Lemmy.world had a lot more power and influence back then. I mean I still blame the other instances who chose to close registrations to "wait out the Reddit migration". I know people will defend that choice (for some reason) but it is insanely shitty to close the doors in times of need, and acknowledge the need, as if it's some kind of problem or annoyance.

Working smarter not harder doesn't mean pulling harder to get it out. It means chipping away at the problem, literally.

If you cut the stone around the sword, either to enlarge the crack or remove the piece of stone with the sword in it, you can get it out with slightly more effort cutting the stone, but none of the brute force effort required to pull it out. Which also eliminates the risk of breaking the sword.

These days it's so easy to cut stone with power tools, it's not like in the old days where that would be a slow process that would take months if not years. A stone cutting chainsaw can do it in minutes.

It was a long time ago, I think it might've been before this community was founded.

PTB, this is to be expected given the history of Lemmy.world's management when it comes to similar issues. Like the drama surrounding them removing the piracy communities. They were banning their users for being against that, and when it was called out, they reversed the instance bans and changed them to community bans.

I don't have much experience with Grail, I used to and still do cite a few articles They've written (Their Agender article is a good one). Though from my personal experiences with Them and how I've seen Them act towards I do think they are a troll, or at the very least extremely adversarial.

I have had many experiences with dragonfucker, and those were insanely bad. dragonfucker literally harassed me multiple times with alts, created communities dedicated to trolling me, because I and others banned them for trolling. I don't know if Grail is the same person. I personally don't think so since They have had a presence on the internet long before dragonfucker. That doesn't mean Grail isn't an alt of dragonfucker or vice versa. I cannot say that for sure, but if They were and there's good evidence for it I feel like this shouldn't even be a vote since we don't do votes for banning trolls or ban evaders.

All that said I'm still in favor of defederation because Grail's instance and views go against our community's values. From what I've seen recently They've been acting like an insane shitlib troll. I feel bad because I've read the stuff They wrote and thought They were probably a very smart and very respectable person. I guess that's why they say you should never meet your heroes.

I haven't had this issue, have you tried using a VPN to access it?