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[discussion] Proposal to defederate from maga.place (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/agora@sh.itjust.works

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I saw that a post was made in !main@sh.itjust.works about defederation about a month ago, an admin commented to make a post here to discuss defederation, but the post was never made.

https://maga.place/ is very obviously a small community with no real substance to it, but I saw an antivax post to !science_memes@mander.xyz and was surprised it still exists.

Anyways I don't really have a lot to say but uh, I recently hit a full year on this great instance 😊 (old account @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Why should users of this instance spend their leisure time with people who not only want to take away their rights, but label themselves as such? A label that tags their user name regardless of what they're saying.

Why should we, as users of this instance, ever allow someone who visibly declares their support for hateful politics, to engage with the most vulnerable among us in the first place?

MAGA policies are killing women. I'm a woman. I see someone calling themselves MAGA and I see someone who supports stripping away my autonomy and letting me die.

Everyone can join as many instances as they want if they believe defederating from hate speech enthusiasts is creating an echo chamber.

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[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Completely agreed. Also history would dictate that giving literal nazis a space/platform with which they can influence people is a bad fuckin idea. We don't owe them tolerance and they should be censored because they are a cult and don't intend on good faith discussion.

Call me radical, I'll say hang loose 🤙

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