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I think a lot of younger people are unaware the US bombed the only baby formula factory in Iraq and claimed it was a chemical weapons factory (it wasn’t), I think many Americans in general are unaware the bombing of the Amiriyah shelter that killed between 400 and 1500 sleeping civilians, mainly women and children, who were incinerated or boiled alive, because of an antenna 300 yards away. BBC journalist John Simpson’s description of the aftermath would make anybody retch.

Your instance is federated with them fam.

Definitely the place for this. Holy cow.

I hope she is doing okay. I have been very critical of this community, here and in other threads, but I want to make it clear that I have not had anything but respect for her and I know none of this was intended or deserved. She didn’t fan the flames. I have been very disappointed some of the users here who went out of their way to do so, and were much more interested in fighting tankies than just… not.

Lot of people said they threw off the vibe here. It seems like a lot of people here are perfectly capable of doing that themselves. I moved here because it was a small little friendly place with chill management who did what needed done but wasn’t heavy handed. I appreciate that she tried to maintain that even when people wanted a war.

Certainly a vibe

One of the reasons I ended up here was because Beehaw did just that.

It didn’t help that the initial user thread about defederation, opened by someone who didn’t like their communities showing up in the All feed as if that is anything but expected, compared them to The_Donald right off the bat (and then remained one of the most vocal and prolific posters on this subject ever since). Prior to that opening salvo, their involvement here had been about 0% and primed the fuse for escalation.

But yeah, poor us.

I don’t even particularly like them, but the response over here had plenty of bad faith “she turned me into a newt!” vibes that were pretty uncool, especially from a few flame-stokers including that initial poster, and another who posted the same screenshot a half dozen times to represent what all of “them” think. It’s interesting to watch in real time how easy it is to decide who “they” are and what “they” think versus what “we” think, especially from a real-life community that often suffers gross generalization about what “they” are like when any individual member acts badly in larger society.

What communities exactly have they been detrimental to?

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Yes, this exactly. I left another instance because of too heavy-handed moderation, don’t really want it again, and especially not over a problem that began when someone didn’t like seeing annoying things in the All feed and Lemmy’s broken sorting.

People on TikTok are pretty bad at just believing everything they hear because someone made a video. Like, a few weeks ago random people were putting up “recordings” of that titanic sub and everyone in the comments was eating it up. Makes me concerned for real internet literacy.

The only problem with Myst is once you know how to win, it’s trivial to win.

I buy it every time they re-release. They did a release a few years ago for VR in Unreal Engine 4 and are working on the same for Riven. I haven’t played it yet but it is supposed to have puzzle randomization so maybe it won’t be so easy now.

I really like CarPlay and wouldn’t give it up for the past.

I always want to become a Luddite, but the dopamine is too strong and I like gadgets too much.

I don’t use discord or matrix so I’m probably already behind.

As could very easily be expected. As has happened before and likely will again. Judging anything based on people upset when you bring up an inflammatory topic about them is no basis for a sound judgement.

We’ve had two other threads that they can easily see and they have not touched (except voting, presumably). That seems like the particular problem was solved.

You were hardly neutral when you made the request in the first place.

Most people didn’t go straight to insulting, they’re a pretty big instance and we would definitely know if they did. One of the reasons we have defederated people before is lack of moderator action, but their mods seem to be pretty on the ball. I’m more offended that Gormandt has posted the same picture several times all over the place as some kind of evidence of a mass issue, than some people being rude on an instance with 25,000.

Maybe, but it’s kind of been the norm every time someone has brought up defederating an instance, because it naturally makes people upset and defensive, since it’s kind of a bigger deal than blocking a community you don’t like in All.

I’d expect it next time too, until Lemmy allows local-only threads. Maybe it’s better to expect human reactions to inflammatory topics.

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They were acting like that in response to a thread where someone asked to defederate with them for petty reasons and their impression that our admin was upset that they’re anti-NATO (a mischaracterization). I’d probably be mad too. I disagree with a knee jerk reaction to a clash of cultures.