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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay I had to think on this one a while. It seems like their community is microscopic. There really is barely anything there. The stuff that is there isn't even really offensive or objectionable just conservative. I do get what people are saying that we need to fight facism everywhere but I tend to err on the side of more speech unless I see evidence of harm coming from a community so I will vote nay but I also don't think there is going to be any loss if people to vote to ban it as there is nearly no posts on there or discussions.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'm exactly the same way. I want to err on the side of more speech, since it's pretty easy to defederate from them later if they cause problems. I'm not going to join any of their communities, and I probably won't notice if they engage on ones I'm part of unless they're being a jerk. I tend to not really look at usernames anyway.

So yeah, I probably won't notice regardless of the outcome of this vote. So the extent of my feelings on this is that I prefer more speech rather than less. If our mods and admins can work with their mods and admins, then we good.