Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.

Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    This entire thing is me thinking your opinion is bad, while your original comment was you saying you think someone else’s opinion is bad.

    Dude you’ve provided exactly zero counterpoints to my position. You think my opinion is bad, fine.

    • @rwhitisissle
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      11 year ago

      Except, I did. Your claim is that Beehaw is authoritarian. Authoritarianism, however, is a political system. This is an explicit example of hyperbole to the point of misrepresentation because authoritarianism presumably ignores the sovereignty and political rights of the members of a nation state. Beehaw is just a website, one in which you can voluntarily participate, but one in which you’re also neither product nor customer. You have no valid claim to any tangible rights on that server. It’s much closer to just disliking a restaurant because it doesn’t serve the food you want and asks you to leave after you keep ordering stuff they just don’t serve. If you want to be able to say slurs or whatever without repercussion, there’s plenty of places on the internet you can get your kicks by doing that. You just can’t do it there.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Dude you’re aware admins/mods are governing bodies right? Authoritarianism applies. If you don’t like how I use the word, tough.

        • @rwhitisissle
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          11 year ago

          By your logic, any position in any institution with any authority of any kind over literally anything or anyone is a “governing body.” Which is, to be perfectly honest, very dumb if you genuinely believe that. It means any moderator of any website is, by your definition, authoritarian because they’ll ban you for breaking the rules. I’m guessing you think lemmy.ca, lemmy.world, and every other lemmy instance with any kind of moderation is by definition authoritarian in its organization. In which case, I have to wonder…why are you even here if you hate it so much?

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            By your logic

            Not by my logic, that’s how it is, admins govern over communities.

            I can understand why my perspective upsets you, you’re controlling my dude.

            • @rwhitisissle
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              11 year ago

              So you admit that you think that literally every mod on every lemmy instance is by definition an authoritarian political entity? Cool. I mean, you’re wrong and it’s kinda weird to single out one instance for it, but you do you.

                • @rwhitisissle
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                  11 year ago

                  That doesn’t fit here because your own initial argument isn’t really even an argument. It’s just the assertion that “Beehaw is authoritarian,” lacking any supporting argumentation or evidence. I can’t misrepresent your argument because you don’t even really have an argument. And you’re effectively admitting to being unable to answer the question: what makes Beehaw’s moderators authoritarian but lemmy.ca or another’s not? If you’re unable to answer that question, then maybe you just have a weird chip on your shoulder, or maybe you got banned for using a slur and are bitter about it? I don’t know what it is, but if you can’t defend your own position then you might wanna do the mature thing and admit it.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    That doesn’t fit here because your own initial argument isn’t really even an argument.

                    Sure it does, your inability, or unwillingness to understand isn’t really my problem. Beehaw is a politically authoritian echochamber. And I’m not talking about “slurs” as you ignorantly believe, you are not allowed to have politically contrary opinions, that’s how the friggen echochamber is maintained.

                    Anything else you’d like to say?