We should try to keep this instance as a Free Speech destination, rather than yet another island controlled by the thought police.
Could we please set some rules for defederation? I’d like to suggest these two:
- Is it spam?
- Is it illegal?
If either is yes, then go ahead and ban it, otherwise allow free discussion and don’t get upset that some people think differently than yourself.
I believe that the [Insert Ethnic Group here] should not be allowed to exist on this planet.
This is not spam and it is not illegal in my country to believe that my people are superior. You may not remove this post since that’s censorship.
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Go visit explodingheads if that pleases you, this is not a free speech zone.
I think having an approach of de-federation where we decide guidelines and then depend on the admin staff to implement them on the individual instances is more sustainable than having to have constant vote threads about the topic.
Illegal content, places where people congregate to plan violence or doxing, etc.
This instance is not a ‘free speech zone’ and we have rules for people posting on communities here. I don’t think we should get in the habit of using de-federation as a downvote button for instances that have opinions that people find objectionable. The block button exists for that, it isn’t just a tool for passive aggressively winning arguments.
Why don’t you leave? Why do other people need to tolerate things for your benefit? It seems like if there is a particular kind of content the majority of your instance does not want to have around but that you still want to engage with, then the onus should be on you to leave right?
I’m not offering advice? Did you read the rest of my comment? If the majority of users of an instance don’t want a certain kind of content around, then why should they be forced to tolerate it for the sake of a minority of users who want to enage with that content? Why is it not the minorities obligation to seek out that content if they want to engage with it and not the majorities obligation to tolerate it?
I agree. And there are many like us. But we might have to bail and join a less triggered instance. But I don’t want to be in a right wing hell hole either. I just want to read people’s posts!
Why create another thread for a subject that’s been covered extensively over many threads already? 🤔 How funny that the only post history you’ve got is about your being pro free speech… Seems like a troll account to me!
Your posts are also all about banning baddies, and you’re more insulting than any of the anti-defed people I’ve seen. Constantly criticizing people for having the discussion in the first place. Toxic!
I also post on other, non political, communities if you look at my history (like Quebec’s), it just so happens that my subscribed feed includes The Agora and this instance’s main community and it’s the most active communities I’m subscribed to and the subject keeps coming back.
