SavvyWolf

This was posted before TheDude’s response, so it wasn’t clear whether this was something that had just slipped through the cracks or not.

However, I agree his response is concerning… Perhaps it’s more due to inexperience than “malice”, but it’s still problematic…

I’ve not seen it myself (not being an admin), but I think there’s a “remove” (not purge) button on the community page. It clears all the posts from that community, and prevents new ones from being received.

To clarify, I agree that Beehaw should defederate with instances full of racist bigoted trolls.

However, it’s hard to argue that sh.itjust.works works is one of those instances from just this. This is one guy who likely slipped under the radar. I’m just saying that we should just wait a bit to see how the situation unfolds before grabbing pitchforks.

I’m just frustrated that not immediately jumping to an extreme response means I’m somehow complicit. And also somewhat frustrated that trying to distance myself from politics apparently means I’m acting privileged.

I’m just tired of being angry all the time, at this point…

It affects me because I feel I need to keep up to date with which instances defederate with each other in order to follow communities. It feels like defederation is a cudgel that is thrown around a lot, and a lot of innocent people get hit in the crossfire.

However, you are correct. A lot of my posts on Lemmy have, to be honest, been my attempts to fix something which can’t be fixed. It’s super not a healthy thing to be doing, honestly. I really should take a break from Lemmy, it’s done nothing but cause me stress and tire me.

Edit: Bit of context for those late, my original comment was just a ramble about how I’m fed up of drama, etc. Nothing really that groundbreaking, tbh.

Of course I’m worried about politics! I’m worried about the return of fascism across the west. I’m worried about deteriorating attitudes towards LGBT people. I’m worried about active attempts to eugenics neurodivergent people. I’m worried about the massive amount of influence megacorps have on people. The world is full of things to worry about. It makes people feel helpless.

I can ramble for ages about how I do what I can. Maybe I can do more. Maybe I’m a bad person for not doing enough? Maybe I’m a coward for wanting to hide from it, I don’t know. Wanting to have a space to step away from worrying about these things is a copying mechanism I use, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.

You know, I’m just going to say it. I’m fucking tired of all of this drama. This is one prick on the internet posting stupid stuff into a room that doesn’t like him. Yet for some reason this is a big international incident that for some reason spans multiple instances and has spurred a debate about whether the entire community should be cut off from everyone.

Like, I’d understand the discussion if the admins came out and said that it was policy or important for “free speech” or something that it be allowed, but… As far as I’m aware, nothing has been said yet. And we don’t even know how long ago the admin was emailed; it’s entirely possible that Tsinc emailed them and waited only about half an hour before saying that there was no response.

Like, come on guys, lets not fall back to the tribal us-vs-them mentality, and actually work with each other to work out solutions. Lets give things time to sort themselves out before going on witch hunts.

Sorry for being emotional, but I’ve been here for only a month now at this point, and what was once an optimistic “lets make a cool new reddit ecosystem with an open and friendly community” has descended to nothing but hostility and vitriol between communities that are mostly filled with people that don’t actually care about politics.

I don’t want to have to deal with this, I just wanna look at cool memes and talk about video games. Honestly, if we’re all going to act like this, I’m tempted to spend more time on Reddit.

Also, fyi, if you are an instance owner, you can click “remove” on a community, and it blocks anyone from subscribing or seeing that community on your instance. It’s a useful intermediate step before full defederation.

And of course, no shade to any of the instance admins that are reading this. Given all of… Well, this, I’m pleasantly surprised to see that you all seem to be talking it over like coworkers.

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