Comment on As a mod, what are the rules in regards to leftist/socialist communities and posts?
kabe@lemmy.world 10 months agofrom my perspective it very much appears like it’s along ideological lines.
I wouldn’t say so at all. The admins took the decision to defederate from the alt-right explodingheads.com instance because the content there broke the servers rules here, and they made a similar judgment with HexBear because of their apparent intention to brigade.
For the record, I personally think the call to defederate with HB was premature. That said, the admins here seem to more or less apolitical band more concerned with protecting their users.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From what I recall about the exploding-heads debacle, there was a lot of polls and hand-wringing before defederating. An actual last resort. I spent hours on hexbear last night, it seemed like they mostly shitpost in the comments. Nothing I saw indicated that they were going to brigade or harass people on LW.
kabe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you read the admin’s explanation post? They cited posts from HexBear admins which suggested they were intending to stir things up on other instances after federation?
Again, I don’t necessarily agree with the decision, but either way it seems to not be about political ideology as much as keeping out unpleasant behavior.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I saw them referring to a year old post about brigading Reddit which saw major pushback from the community, is that what you mean? Like I said in other comments, I was on HB for hours last night and didn’t see anything that stood out as a threat to LW.
Blamemeta@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The first time is always the hardest. After that, its easy, because theres precedent.