Here is the thread of theirs

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.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      Seems fair to me.

      Though I think those who don’t like this instance should just block the communities and move on.

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        I don’t really have any complaints about it (I mean about them blocking users not their content), I guess they don’t have a lot of tools to reduce visibility. But I really should have put “Positive reaction to instance mass banning users who complain” on my lemmy drama bingo card this morning because I did not see that coming

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          1 year ago

          A perfect solution would be a “Block Instance” function, hopefully they work on that. Lemmy is still very new.

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            1 year ago

            I do this for nsfw content i see on all, i just block the community so I don’t see it on this account. Don’t want that popping up while in public.

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        Agreed, exploding heads is not for me, so I block and move on. I am new so I still use All to see what’s going on and find new content. This NIMBY ‘let’s defederate’ seems counterproductive. Looking at you beehaw.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          1 year ago

          I’ve noticed it’s the same few users making the same de-federation argument and spreading it everywhere.