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?
There is nothing political about people not wanting to waste unnecessary time moderating social media.
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.
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.
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.
