this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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You can and should defederate from things you don't want to see. That's the whole point of the entire project, that you can control your experience and choose to interact with whatever communities you wish. The Donald has a history of brigading and generally being a barbarian horde of racist dickheads, so defederating from them makes absolute sense. This isn't just "I don't like your opinion", it's absolutely "these people have a proven history of ruining every group they go near."
https://sh.itjust.works/ isn't just c/thedonald.
Reddit, wasn't just r/thedonald.
c/thedonald, is a SINGLE USER on an entire instance.
Defederating the entire instance, to block the content of a single user, ONLY HURTS the thousands of users on that server, who want to see content elsewhere, and ONLY HURTS the users elsewhere, who want to see content on THAT server.
Then perhaps that instance should consider if it really wants to host the hateful content everyone is objecting to.
Absolutely! Defederation is the prime weapon against these choad warriors.
Fuck fascists, and fuck any instance which would host them!
There's probably 11 fascists on kbin as well. Should your instance by defederated too?