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Thank You Everyone For Rejecting The Fascists/Bigots At The Door (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I'm honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.

They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.

Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they're in it for the right reasons.

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[–] Backspacecentury@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mod comment is glorious in the replies:

If it truly gets under your skin that these bigoted spaces are being defederated by the nicer spaces, feel free to join a more right-wing infested instance. Just understand that the rest of the fediverse is not obliged to listen to their lunacy.

Fuckin' mike drop.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a pretty good take, but also the defederation ban-hammer seems to get dropped a bit, which seems like it should be the last option, not the first.

Surely there should be a way to mark content coming in from questionable servers with a tag so that users can choose to see it on their instance, similar to how NSFW posts can be hidden.

At least that way the content would be federated and things synced, leaving the choice up to the user.

[–] PM_me_your_vagina_thanks@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Why give the option to indulge in that shit? They can fuck right off and live in their dumb little world with each other.

[–] smokinjoe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Go ahead and build the feature.

Until it exists, this is the current solution.