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.
Wait what, am I understanding this right, sh.itjust.works is federated with the nazis? Oof, well, enjoy I guess lol.
They’re not Nazis. The Neo-Nazi instance has defederated itself from all communities.
You’re not even from sh.it.
Reasonable, I think. It seems there’s a faction of users going all or nothing across the instances, holding pitchforks and clutching their pearls, screaming, “Defederate or doom is upon us!” Man, I can block something if I don’t want to see it. Or the alternative they chose, personal ban. It’s not the end of times. I want to believe instances are trying to reach a middle ground here to preserve the spirit of federation.
These users will get bored and move back to Reddit eventually. They’ve done so on every other reddit alternative, it’s nothing new.
I think they have some excellent points. I’ve been lurking in both instances and have yet to see any explodingheads users exploring outside of their instance (except one guy who said they made an account to cause dissent in the exploding-heads instance).
They are a tiny instance with only 40 Users per week (This is increased due to other instances peeking inside). If you look across their top posts all week, or even their hot page, you’ll see that there are only a few active users. Their top post this week only has 18 upvotes. Comparatively, sh.it has 424 upvotes.
Block the active posters and communities, and you won’t see them ever.
This proves my point. Most of those examples are from the same few users in the same communities.
Block them. Easy peasy.
“If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis”
I get what you’re saying, but why associate with a place that allows people like that in the first place?
They aren’t neo-nazis.
I was a 12 year user and they banned me permanently on the 6th, during a blackout, for “harassment”, on a comment that was mild and simply complained about r/politics moderators and shared my true experience of being banned from politics after a decade of use for saying, “only a fool links opinion pieces as evidence.”. Would love to prove it but they removed my comment and I haven’t been able to track it down subsequently.
Anyone have any ideas how to get it? I’d like to send my story to some journalists while Reddit is a hot topic to show they ban long term users who didn’t break rules simply because they don’t like what the user is saying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/146ovat/comment/jnsj3w0
Sorry to be insensitive, but I don’t think that’s a hot scoop.
