Comment on As a mod, what are the rules in regards to leftist/socialist communities and posts?
kabe@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
The first time is always the hardest. After that, its easy, because theres precedent.