All:
As the mod for this community I just wanted to drop this note:
A community purportedly a clone of an overtly political, fascistic, misogynistic, and trolling subreddit was set up on this instance and, as a result, there has been discussion in the greater fediverse to defederate sh.itjust.works.
When I am a net control station, as when I’m operating any radio, I do not discuss politics and follow good amateur practice. When I was a kid I was taught that the hobby was to facilitate emergency communications, enhance technical progress, and promote international goodwill. I’m firmly of the opinion politics messes up that last point, in particular.
While, I don’t want our hobby affiliated with hateful and violent content, I also want discussion to reach as broad an audience as possible. To that end, defederation would be unacceptable. Should sh.itjust.works be defederated I will be terminating my account and moving elsewhere. Should someone else choose to be a mod, I’ll leave it up to you to decide but I will not be sticking around and will either delete this community (if possible), set up another amateur_radio community, or join an already existing one.
I appreciate you understanding and consideration.
If everyone starts defederating instances just because there is a community they don’t like, then eventually, every instance will be isolated.
Yup, there’s plenty I don’t like on lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, but I don’t raise a fuss, I just don’t sub to those communities.
I don’t get why everyone is being so dramatic. In this case, it was one user trolling. Just report, block, and move on. It’ll happen again, we don’t need to jump to defederation every time someone decides to troll…
It’s both amusing and frightening how just one or two users could cause this much discussion and controversy across instances.
Can’t help but feel like we gave them exactly what they wanted.
Exactly. The community in question is a couple of trolls. This is the drama they wanted.
Not only that, a couple of trolls that were banned and their community deleted.
It’s insane to me that there’s so much drama and craziness over a community that’s already been removed.
I think people just like being outraged. Makes you feel like you’re standing up and solving a problem without actually doing anything. Kinda like how talking about a goal can give you a sense of accomplishment without achieving it.
Hmmm… Yeah perhaps we need a report button lol
There is one for users.
I think, ime, people are kind of afraid of some basic truths, and that lends to them putting their head in the sand.
People are not used to being in control of their own media, and now that they have to be mindful of their own content, they are surprised at just how awful people can be.
I’m not really sure what the best way to handle intolerance is, but I personally rather be able to view it, and interact with it, if I want. It’s like the real world. It’s messy and ambiguous.
Some, not all, of those hateful people have just been raised and indoctrinated by ignorance and need a path out of that perspective. I think shutting them in makes the problem worse tbh. . What do we owe the intolerant people as fellow humans? I pity them because I am empathetic to how they were twisted that way.
At the same time there are definitely people who just love to hate and feed off it, and I think it’s important to know the difference.