What defederating would mean:
- We won’t see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.
Pros:
- There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.
Cons:
- We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org users won’t see any of our content.
Summary
Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’).
beehaw.org users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.
What do you think?
But it is a political decision.
There is nothing political about people not wanting to waste unnecessary time moderating social media.
But this is political. Beehaw mods have said so
Safe spaces and freedom of trolls/bigots is not political. No where in the beehaw explanation do they cite politics as a reason for this. If someone kept calling me a idiot commie and I blocked them, I’m not blocking politics I’m blocking trolling.
I’m not sure that you can separate the concept of safe spaces out from politics, in much the same way that you can’t separate your individual identity from politics. I’m not saying that they’re a bad thing, but I do think that they’re inherently political. People tend to want to segregate into spaces where they don’t have to constantly keep their guard up.
A community of like minded people with similar values is not political. A community where a gay person can expect not to be made fun of for being gay is not political. The fact that people’s sexualities and genders and world views are politicized and used by trolls as means to attack is the problem, not the people wanting refuge from that. Things being politicized does not make my existence political. If someone can’t separate me the being from their politics that is on them.
People just shouldnt enter conversations to put people down for their looks or beliefs or enter conversations that otherwise aren’t for them. Not everything is for everyone and that is ok. Not everyone needs to hear every opinion as not every opinion holds equal weight in every forum.
Except their excuses are pretty poor. Modlogs are always public info, and you can see that there were only one or two trolls. That doesn’t warrant blocking hundreds of other users.
So then you agree? It’s not political?
Whether it was the right decision or not, they said they made it because trolls were coming from those communities and those communities have open sign ups. They also said it’s not permanent so it’s not like they’re trying to silence a group of people perceived to mostly be on those servers. Just a group of mods/admins that took maybe too severe of a step to protect their base/their time/their own mental health.
It’s most likely going to be permanent. beehaw’s admins don’t have a very reputable history of fair moderation.
It’s most likely going to change when the protocol advances and defederation tools become more nuanced.
Hopefully