Dbzero Governance Vote Post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728

Ahoy mateys!

A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. …

More context

Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. …

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead.

In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation.

Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org is now defederated

i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

    • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Sometimes the further left extremes I’ve heard hear are indistinguishable from conservative Q-Anon. I legitimately need to check users post histories to understand which extreme they are on

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        They are very clearly distinguishable, just not to you yet. Until recently, you’d only ever heard disagreements coming from your right, so you confuse disagreements coming from your left with them.

         
        Liberalism in fact has more in common with fascism than socialism: they’re both capitalist ideologies. Previously.

      • LeninWeave [they]@lemmy.ml
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        I legitimately need to check users post histories to understand which extreme they are on

        If you can’t tell the difference between “media companies serve the interests of their owners and managers” and Q-Anon, that might indicate a problem with you rather than with others.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            Communists and fascists are diametric opposites. Communists seek to collectivize production and distribution to fulfill the needs of everyone. Fascists seek the preservation of private property and the extermination of labor organizers. Lazily equating the two and doing nothing to back it up is just “enlightened” centrism.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                “Tankie” is just a pejorative for communist, though. That’s like saying you said “commie,” not “communist.”

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                    2 months ago

                    It is, though. “Tankie” isn’t an ideology, it’s a pejorative typically used against Marxists that serves as a strawman of Marxist beliefs.

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        2 months ago

        It’s very easy to distinguish if you actually act in good faith, which you clearly don’t

        • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world
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          The comment I replied to vs. this from QAnon page on Wikipedia.

          The cabal is thought to cover up its existence by controlling politicians, mainstream media, and Hollywood.

          Only difference is that your side is “right”

            • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world
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              I don’t believe the horseshoe theory. Far left and far right have a number of stark differences such as religion, economic policy, etc. I just believe that both sides are fringe cult-like environments, particularly when it comes to isolating yourselves and ideology control. Occasionally, I see other similarities.

              Imo, far left isn’t clearly closer to the far right in most beliefs, except cult-like behavior

          • LeninWeave [they]@lemmy.ml
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            Only difference is that your side is “right”

            lmao, you’re the perfect centrist. By your standard, “the Holocaust happened” and “white genocide in South Africa happened” are both equally valid statements. Do you see how ridiculous it is to just group statements by superficial similarity and treat them as equivalent regardless of the substance of the claims or the evidence?

              • LeninWeave [they]@lemmy.ml
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                I said “equivalent” and “equally valid”, if you’re going to make an argument based on the exact word used you should at least get it right.

                Only difference is that your side is “right”

                I literally quoted this sentence where you stated that they were equivalent in my previous reply.