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.

    • 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.

    • 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.