A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. ....

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Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. ...

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead.

In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation.

Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org is now defederated

i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Again: how would you mitigate against mass onetime accounts meant to downvote specific comments fascists have been using to silence others?

Because piefed believes monitoring the “attitude” of an account and “repudiating” it are the temporary measures for this behavior.
Lemmy just let's occur, wilfully aware it persists.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

By not making a system that helps continue that exact behavior with a system that pushes people for being downvoted that exact way or don't interact with posts how the dev wants.

The ‘Rep’ column is their reputation. As you can see, some people have been downvoted thousands of times. They’re not going to change their ways, are they?

The functionality is exact opposite of what you want. It's empowering mass downvoting to silence others because that's how the system is designed.

Because piefed believes monitoring the “attitude” of an account and “repudiating” it are the temporary measures for this behavior.

Again it's not that's the guiding principle listed for how they want to have spaces and users behave.

And was your link to lemmy issues supposed to show something other than recent issues unrelated to the behavior?

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It most certainly is.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So links to same page saying it's features made to do social media credit scores and then piefed issues?

What are you trying to say with that?

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can I buy a house with these?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So are just randomly replying

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’m trying to see if I can try a different framing for your backfire effect for you to criticallly read this without your biases.
Can you rebase your thinking?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Bias on how piefed is set up by their own sign up page?

I'm only replying at this point for others as you don't seem to read

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 35 minutes ago

Who are these “others”?