negativity/brainrot and divisiveness
If you want to go down that direction, I can point to a half-dozen or more communities that allow those types of posts, just in the other direction.
Why link this over anything else?
It has the right headline for the message they want to discuss in their community.
Look at the sketchy articles I've linked, or sketchy articles in explicitly biased communities on this instance and others federated with it, and that's the exact same trend. People link things because the headline says what they'd like to discuss.
How many people in !occupydemocrats@sh.itjust.works looks into the sources from stuff they post? What about !politicalmemes@lemmy.world? They're remarkably similar to how !conservative@maga.place works, accuracy of reporting takes a backseat to headlines.
Compare that to the Time article https://time.com/7329777/trump-xi-meeting-korea-us-china-trade-deal-tariffs-takeaways/ Sources everywhere and it’s better fuller information
Sure, and that's the type of source I'd expect in a news or politics community. It's not what I'd expect in a "liberals" or "conservatives" community.
Preaching to the choir is the point.
people who support hamas and criticize Israel are evil
I actually kind of agree here. I support Palestinians, I don't support Hamas. I also criticize Israel.
Supporting terrorist groups is evil.
I can criticize Israel and agree with tucker Carlson on that point, he didn’t even say anything about hamas but just criticizing Israel = antisemite and nazi like wtf…
I agree, and that would be something I'd report a post over, and maybe report a user, not defederate from an instance.
“if he’s not dealt with there will be consequences” that is about as explicit of a threat as you can get, am I misunderstanding something?
Maybe? Without a lawsuit where evidence is compiled, I just don't think we have enough evidence to say what actually happened and what the understanding actually was.
Sure if the instance mods remove all the misinfo and hatred, I’m all for an actual debate on immigration, universal healthcare etc. But right now there is less than 0 value on that instance.
Whether there's value for you is irrelevant. You can easily just not look at their content, or even block the instance if you want to make sure you don't see their content. We have solutions for that.
We have zero evidence that the mods aren't responsive. Literally nobody has posted anything to that effect, nor any evidence that their users are causing problems. So why should we defederate? Because we don't like their speech? That's about as closed minded and anti-free speech as I can think of. So many want to shut out the instance merely because of their domain name, as in, they don't want to have that discussion whatsoever.
Maybe they will change in the future and we refederate
That never happens. Why would anyone look at their instance if we're defederated from them? There's zero chance that we'd actually get around to considering it.