The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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    Blocking is not a real solution, it is putting a blanket over the problem and pretending it went away. People who suggest you do that are suggesting you enable bad faith actors by ignoring their behavior, as opposed to reporting it and/or making others aware so they can report it. We all need to work better to make the platform and spaces on it better, if no one works at it, nothing gets better.

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      9 months ago

      Exactly! Letting problematic instances poison the well leads to a net negative to the platform.

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        My unpopular opinion: Federating with everyone by default is not sustainable.

        It’s inevitable that the lemmyverse will shatter, and everyone will be better for it.

        Instances will develop their own policies around moderation and behaviour, and federate with other instances with compatible policies.

        Basically, federation only works if everyone is acting in good faith. It wouldn’t take much for a single entity acting in bad faith to removed the entire fediverse presently.

        Presently admits are blacklisting the bad faith instances. That’s going to change so admins whitelist compatible instances.

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          9 months ago

          Exactly. Without rules and enforcement, you just get a cesspit. Anarchy just doesn’t work.

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            9 months ago

            Perhaps more accurately, anarchy only works if everyone’s objectives are similar or at least compatible.

            Like it would be nice to live in a town where you don’t need to lock your doors, but it only takes one asshole to make that untenable.

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              9 months ago

              It only taking one asshole is why it doesn’t work. You just never going to have no assholes. So you need a justice system, and a way of policing the policing of it.