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.
Explain how defederating them will stop them from causing problems? They can just as easily make an account over here to mess with us if they wanted.
If anything you’re the one poking the hornet’s nest. The OP is literally them trying not to offend or bother our users. Just let them be and everything will be fine.
Because the entire point of these places is to weaponize social media for far right propaganda purposes.
Most won’t bother creating a new account just to bother users on other instances.
Defederation doesn’t prevent them from posting here, we just won’t see their comments. It doesn’t prevent us from posting there if we want to either.
Lol what?
That’s exactly what defederation does, it will prevent them from posting here and us from posting there.
No, I can still post on Beehaw, only people federated with sh.itjust.works can see my messages
No, you can’t. You’re posting on sh.itjust.works’s copy of beehaw’s thread. Being defederated with them, not a single beehaw user will see your comment. Only users from your specific instance will.
Yes and that’s exactly the point of defederating from an instance? They can do whatever they please on their side, we don’t need to see it.
I want to see varied opinions. I do NOT want another filter bubble.
Then you’re free to join EH and enjoy the freedom to look at racist, homophobic and conspiracy content, it doesn’t mean that should be imposed on communities that value tolerance.
You are way too intolerant to be pushing “tolerance”.
Have you gone onto the beehaw instance directly to see if your posts are there? From what i’m aware it’s possible to post in the snapshot of a defederated instance but it won’t actually reach that site.
The only threads that should be on your instance are the ones from prior to defederation
Thanks for the clarification!
If the only people who can see the messages are local users, than you’re not really posting on Beehaw, you’re posting on sh.itjust.works
@Kecessa@sh.itjust.works is a bit of a troll, don’t expect a discussion. They’ve been following my posts and comments for a while now. Report and move on.
I never forced you to reply to the messages I posted and you disagreed with 🤷
Yet you continue to follow me and spam the same emoji on my comments. Your post history is public.
Stop replying to me if you don’t like it… Or… Block me?
That’s your solution with exploding heads users isn’t it? People should block the users that post comments they don’t like and the mods shouldn’t intervene… Yet you’re saying I should be reported to the mod? Isn’t that hypocritical on your part?
Stop replying to you? But you replied to me first.
And no, I’m not going to block you. That’s against the values of this community. See in the sidebar,
Really? I made it pretty clear in the first discussion that I didn’t want to argue with you anymore, you saw my message in the second discussion and replied to me 🤷
That’s an entirely different thread. You were also the first one to contact me in the original thread on a different community as well.