• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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      22 hours ago

      Paradox of tolerance doesn’t include collective punishment, mate. Especially considering the .world and .ml instances are the largest ones, to the point where they’re listed on the Wiki article for Lemmy.

      Just imagine - you seeing that Reddit is going to shit, wanting to change to something better, looking up Lemmy, seeing that one of these two instances being the largest, joining, and immediately being called a Nazi, or some such bullshit by an elitist prick.

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        21 hours ago

        You know we’re talking about ICE, right? the literal evil paramilitary squad of a crumbling empire. The ones who kidnap children, the ones who break into homes and disappear people.

        I could understand your being pissed off if it was some fucker getting cancelled for something unimportant.

        But people died, people died. This ain’t the same thing.

        And no, it literally does. You don’t want to turn into a nazi bar, you don’t let Nazis in. If the owners let Nazis in, you don’t go to the bar and you tell every other fucker to do the same.

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          17 hours ago

          You know we’re talking about ICE, right?

          No, we’re talking about blocking an instance because it “accepted” an ICE account.

          the literal evil paramilitary squad of a crumbling empire. The ones who kidnap children, the ones who break into homes and disappear people.

          I know full well who they are. But they’re still - like it or not - a government organisation. There should be tools to help moderation in such situations. Like, if you have your average right-wing nutjob lying non-stop, flag the account, make it only publish posts after a review, or something.

          I could understand your being pissed off if it was some fucker getting cancelled for something unimportant.

          But people died, people died. This ain’t the same thing.

          OK, so what do you propose? Say, Johnny Regular signs up in .blahaj.zone. Then goes insane and starts a mass shooting, killing a hundred people.

          Do we blow up the instance, blacklist everybody on it because “people died” and “nobody wants to be the instance with ICE Johnny Regular on it”?

          And no, it literally does. You don’t want to turn into a nazi bar, you don’t let Nazis in. If the owners let Nazis in, you don’t go to the bar and you tell every other fucker to do the same.

          So add a mechanism to review accounts before they’re created, especially for gov users, instead of nuking an instance because one got let in.

          • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            15 hours ago

            Nobody is talking about “one got let in” though, they’re talking about officially opening the door wide open, like how Bsky did.

            There’s a difference

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                  6 hours ago

                  “We”? I didn’t. Everything I’m saying is still 100% in that context. Why in the world would I move away from it?

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                    4 hours ago

                    Well I guess that’s the problem then, I assumed you were arguing against systemwide ban of instances that intentionally open the door for them.

                    Yeah of course, if it’s an ICE account that just joins is their own accord, let that instance deal with it, not a problem. I think it’s stupid for anyone to argue to ban the instance for something outside their control.

                    But if they do as bsky.social main instance did; open the door, officially recognise them, and don’t kick/ban, then the instance is bad for the ecosystem and should be treated like the virus it is. That’s when to defederate it.