I am watching instances on the fediverse once again fall into the trappings of giving too much benefit of the doubt/giving too much commitment to some flawed notion of “free speech” and all I can think about is how that is 90% of what ruins any quality community that starts gaining traction online.
If this is the road we’re going down we may as well leave now. I’m tired of seeing this happen over and over again. 
Admins: y’all need to be more liberal with the ban hammer. You also need to defederate from communities that are so blatantly toxic and fucked up. There are enough people out there now that we don’t need to be hanging out with literally any person who expresses interest in the fediverse. It’s time to exercise a little bit of discernment. Your generosity will be used against you like a casual. Make no mistake.
net00@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Many people are very triggered in that post and I don’t get it.
No platform is gonna have only decent users and only content you agree with. Resorting to defederation from any instance that is offensive to some people just damages what lemmy is trying to be tbh.
Eventually instances following that mindset will be isolated because there’s always someone out there who wants to impose their own content curation (like no NSFW, no politics, no trolling, no memes, etc…)
Users should make the calls for what they want to see on an individual level. Thanks to the admin to sticking to fair policies.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I blocked hexbear, but commenters still show up in non-hexbear threads. Is this a bug, or do I just have to deal with it?
jack@hexbear.net 10 months ago
You can’t block an instance yet, just communities. They’re working on that feature.
acastcandream@beehaw.org 10 months ago
This entire mentality you have is the problem. If people are fucked up, you need to remove them. Plain and simple. You aren’t disagreeing about a studio album. These are flagrant bigots.