I understand what you do and what you mean with this post but it will be futile. Hexbear and lemmygrad are toxic instances where you cannot have a proper conversation with its users.
I call it the 4chan style of discussing things. Make you answer a plethora of questions without them needing to answer your questions. The point is to pit you constantly on the back-foot. They count on your morals and decency to keep answering and defending your opinions where they will absolutely have no desire to do the same thing. The end goal is for you to become frustrated and give up. For you to become disheartened.
I urge all instance owners to defederate from these shitholes, nothing of value will be lost.
If the admin of an instance A defederates instance B, all users on instance A will no longer see instance B.
However, other instances (like for example instance C) will still see the comments/users from instance B.
The user being able to block instance B will no longer see anything from that instance B but all other users on instance A will keep seeing all from instance B. It is a personal instance block after all
This is how I understood the user instance blocking and it kinda aligns on how I think the fediverse works. But I could be wrong.
I get disfederation keeping people from finding an instance, but blocking an instance apparently doesn’t stop me from having to deal with the users of that instance showing up here.
Then I think I fail to see what you mean and want.
The PR is meant to be able to block an instance as a user but you seem to think that it is about finding an instance and blocking that? I see no real purpose in such a feature tbh.
This is not how I understood the new feature but again, I could be wrong.
I will await the new feature and hope and pray it is what I think it is.
if you just made this thread as a ploy to draw out hexbears to block — ostensibly because you are annoyed that they swarm threads — then you could have simply found one of those previous threads that annoyed you and blocked the hexbear users there, instead of creating a whole new thread just for the occasion.
I figured a small civics lesson couldn’t hurt as well. And draw attention to the fact that they’re a big fucking problem that maybe the admins might want to look at. I don’t seem to have a direct way of messaging them.
the civics lesson comes off as condescending, because it’s stuff everyone learned in high school. and it also seems to take the stance that process is more important than results, at a time when a lot of people could use some results and the process does not seem to be working. the flippancy of the hexbear users in this thread comes from those two things - the perception that you’re being condescending, and frustration at your apparent priorities, which differ from theirs.
This is literally just bait and has no place in this community. Moderators should delete this on that grounds alone.
If it’s allowed, then I wouldn’t begrudge any Hexbear user(s) from spamming the comm with random political theory posts, especially those of the communist variety
Yeah everyone should have that right, but I don’t think it does anyone any favors to allow these type of posts on this comm.
It’s one thing to invite dunking on yourself in the comments section of a topical post. It’s another to create posts just for the sake of stoking inter instance drama in a comm not made for that.
Yeah that’s true on the one hand, but on the other, I would leave it up just for accountability. It is about politics in every way, even if it has a meta nature.
Plus by leaving it up they get to show their ass and it invites people to come and explain how they are wrong.
Especially considering the poster doesn’t seem to have any interest in either explaining or defending what it’s supposed to mean. Like, I enjoy talking about politics as much as the next person but it doesn’t look like OP wants to discuss anything.
Why is an electoral system where 2/3 of the house is unelected and the third branch is indirectly elected via an electoral college seen as democratic?
Like, I live in the UK so I can’t really talk about antidemocratic systems gestures at the lords, but this doesn’t seem like a system that allows for a person’s vote to be worth much.
Lmao why are you explaining incredibly basic things even people outside of the US know and acting like you’re saying something incredible and knowledgeable?
This is literally primary school content for 11 year olds. How old are you @spaceghoti ? Why on earth do you think this is notable or worth raising and act like it’s something everyone hasn’t already heard before?
Have you read the Federalist Papers? Specifically number 10.
Honestly this all sounds like arbitrary shit someone made up without proper justification or consideration.
All forms of goverment have checks and balances. How is this special?
All forms of goverment are a way to achive consensus amongst the rulling class. How is this different?
Why is this separation of powers the ideal one?
Why separate the legislative and the judiciary when there is a rich tradition of common law?
Why cant the executive act by commitie or in a decentralized way?
Are these “powers” actually autonomus or arbitrary constructions dependent on other institutions to act?
Why are these considered the central responsabilities of the state? Why cant the legislature and the judiciary be separate from the state like in the abassid era?
Given that slavery was outlawed, colonization largely brought to an end around the world, and leaps and bounds have been made in terms of our treatment of minority groups in general, I'm pretty sure the current system is going a damn good job.
Look into proletarian democracy
Yeah, that's a fancy word for "Marxist authoritarianism"
To compare prisons and the institutions of slavery is absurd and silly.
Prison labor deserves criticism, but to act like slavery is still a thing because of that is just you intentionally blowing the situation out of the water.
This is getting facepalm worthy. I'll bet you're saying this because like 10 prisons were built on former plantation land.
black activists do directly compare
You're a lost cause if you don't see the many gaping issues with reasoning like this. Go ask vegans if meat eating is slavery and they'll say yes as well. Of course they do. They're activists.
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