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.
“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?
Don’t associate with them if you don’t want to. You don’t have to go to their communities on their instances. If they come here and break the rules then they will be banned for breaking our rules.
The ability for you to ‘leave the table’, so to speak, is already available to you. You just don’t sit down in the first place, don’t click on their communities and don’t visit their instance.
If someone posts something you don’t like on another community then either report them for breaking that community’s instance’s rules or block them so you don’t have to see their posts.
It isn’t up to you to decide what other users on this instance can view or respond to. You can curate your own block list. You can’t tell me how to curate my block list.
They aren’t neo-nazis.