I have been looking through a long thread on another instance where a few users have been trying to convince that instance to defederate from Exploding Heads - because they do not want to see the content posted on Exploding Heads.
I have thought long and hard about how to please these people. They do have the option to individually block Exploding Heads communities or users, but they either do not know how to or simply do not want to.
In the end I realized if I ban those specific users requesting defederation from Exploding Heads - they will not see any content from Exploding Heads and therefore will not be offended by it. (Truth be told I am not sure if some of these users have really visited our site or interacted with our users).
So today I have banned those users with the explanation that they have said they do not want to see Exploding Heads content. If any of those users wish to be unbanned in the future, all they have to do is say so and I will happily unban them.
These users are not being banned in order to censor them, but to help them achieve what they have been requesting - to not see Exploding Heads content.
I hope you all find this a fair and reasonable action - if not let me know.
I agree that I should’ve turned around as soon as I saw lemmygrad defederated. My bias told me “eh that’s not that terrible”.
But it is.
Yeah, it’s not that terrible because it’s the group you disagree with but we can’t go and ban your buddies at the other end of the spectrum can we? 😂
Alright, I’m done with you, I pointed out your hypocrisy, you can’t argue in good faith and as I mentioned before, only those who argue in good faith deserve to be heard!
Not just disagree with, they are just so irrelevant their absense is not missed.
As you noted, that ban was also done with zero discussion. As a free speech believer, I would advocate for them just the same.
What I wrote in that thread, and what you took as hypocrisy (because that’s what you are looking for), is still true. Siloing is inevitable because of how idiotic human culture works, but that doesn’t mean I should stay silent about it when it’s brought up for discussion/vote.
Of course I am aware my efforts are in vain, duh.