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The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches.

Edit: the response on exploding-heads.com to my reporting of transphobia. Courtesy of the "second in command"

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

social media bans opinions

Hate is not an opinion

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it not? It may be an opinion stemming from a feeling but it's still an opinion isn't it?

[–] jorpylaforge@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it breaks the social contract of tolerance and seeks to end discourse by killing the participants when escalated to its final form. hate groups are no more participants in discourse than fire is an architectural style for building a house.

we don't have to take seriously the folks that suggest "let's set it on fire" when discussing whether we want to build a victorian or modern style home because they are not serious people and their poor ideas have been proven idiotic too many times to count.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree with any of that.

However, my comment is about the definition of an opinion, and I still haven't gotten an explanation why it's not one.

[–] IlllIIIlllIlllI@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

Definitionally is