It’d be nice if the admins got everyone’s input on these sorts of things. Admins making decisions without thought to our opinions is what drove us here from reddit. I’m not going to lose sleep over hexbear defederation in particular, but it’s a disconcerting precedent.
I know I can just leave to another instance, but I’ve started [email protected] here and don’t want to have to move that too 😓
(Apologies if this isn’t the place to share suggestions. Also I do appreciate the hard work the admins are doing. My sincere thanks!!)
Yeah, I think the statement was kind of awkward and muddled what at its core was an anti-trolling stance with ideological examples. They’re trolling for those reasons and you can expect them keep doing it because they (theoretically) care deeply about waging that “war”, but the problem is the trolling, not their motivations.
I started out in lukewarm support, but the comments on the defederation posts pushed me into wholehearted support. I’d mostly forgotten how exhausting their brand of trolling and disingenuous argumentation was, and now can’t imagine voluntarily returning to a social space awash in that. I certainly wouldn’t open a sub somewhere they could (conveniently) access, so while it may cut off potential users for your streetwear sub, I expect there are a lot of other mods breathing a sigh of relief to not have their volunteer labor made noticeably more time consuming because we have to give trolls a chance to be trolly enough to warrant the drama of a breakup. Much easier to just never integrate in the first place.