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.

  • Goldmage263
    62·
    1 year ago

    I’m a newer user so I’d appreciate more information before I vote. Why would defederation be more applicable than down voting en mass? From the examples it seems that there are very few up votes on the posts.

      • goatEnglish
        54·
        1 year ago

        I regularly sort by New and I’ve never seen an exploding-heads post.

        • canEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m just going to share that this is my anecdotal experience as well.

          • goatEnglish
            35·
            1 year ago

            It means your “people accidentally running across their shit” doesn’t hold water.

              • goatEnglish
                32·
                1 year ago

                It’s worth as much as yours.

                  • goatEnglish
                    32·
                    1 year ago

                    How mature of you.

      • mnemonicmonkeys
        21·
        1 year ago

        Counterpoint: users here aren’t likely to see much of their content without subscribing to communities on their instance

      • Goldmage263
        21·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for clarifying what defederation does. After reading opinions more informed than mine, I’ll probably abstain from voting. I’m fine with either outcome. My preferred outcome is for their posts to receive a “hate post” flair when viewable on this instance, but that would probably take too much effort/programming to be viable.