Recently the site has become full of transphobic and conspiracy garbage, as well as a campaign for Ron DeSantis.
Their admin doesn’t seem to give two shits about any of this he’s just letting it happen without any intervention. Defederating them would benefit this community greatly.
if there isn’t an overlap in userbase then i don’t see a reason to defederate, and if we did defederate then i think there would be more of a risk of brigading or harassment than there already is now. might as well leave the beehive alone so nobody gets stung
thats not how the fediverse does things
how so? it seems like a handful of users are the issue on that instance, they’re clearly just looking for a place to spew hatred so when those users find out a instance largely made up of queer folk defederated with their instance don’t you think they’d be more likely to make an account on another instance and bring the hate here? i think unless the admin is supportive of that behavior it would make more sense to give them a chance to deal with that on their own before deciding to defederate
I can’t think why that would be the case. Bigots gonna bigot. I think they’re likely to harass queer people because we exist, and anything that makes that harder (e.g. defederating instances that protect them) is good actually.
“Don’t feed the trolls” never really worked, it just meant they continued to exist without opposition.
I disagree. Harmful, bigoted content is already being posted there. Defederating now protects this community from being exposed to it.
If the admin is responsive and deals with the issue, we can always federate with them at that point.
thats fair i definitely get your last point, think the rest is probably down to our personal experiences with trolls/bigots. appreciate you taking the time to reply
valid
thank you for the first civil and kind disagreement i have had on social media since
well
probably ever 💖
I have seen some trolls from this instance on the transfem community.
What a fucking cowardly response.
damn i get i was wrong but theres no need to throw around insults over it
So far as I could tell it was not an insult.
It was an accurate adjective.
whatever it was it’s misplaced, i promise we agree on this. while i get it wasn’t completely clear, my comment was about the practicality of immediately making that decision without considering potential consequences, not that we should tolerate or ignore any of the transphobia on that instance.
i wrote down a thought that i had, that defederation could possibly make the instance a target, which ended up not making as much sense as i thought at first. i also didn’t realize that there was a large scale issue of anti trans harassment on this site which i now know there is on other instances, on first glance it seemed isolated, so thats my bad
either way, throwing around accurate adjectives and getting in heated arguments online absolutely isn’t any kind of praxis and honestly is a waste of time