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!!)
Agreed and that’s what I’m suggesting lemmy.world do. They don’t have to, but it’d be nice if they did, even informally. A simple, “Hey, what do y’all think?” would be nice, before they make a decision that significantly impacts our collective experience.
As for preemptively defederating from trolls, I can appreciate the argument, and if that was the only justification given, I wouldn’t be so concerned. But the admins also cited political opinions that fly in the face of their own branding: a “generic” instance “for the entire world to use”. Had they included “you must love the World Bank and IMF”, I wouldn’t have joined this instance in the first place, just like I didn’t join beehaw. It’s not that I hate those orgs, but I don’t want to be in an echo chamber.