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You choose what instance you are on. Quit the pseudointellectual whining. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrpants@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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No server operator needs to federate with you.
No server operator needs to tolerate things they don't want on their instance.
No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don't want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers' posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Is that what you think it is? For some maybe, but I think it's good to take a look occasionally just to see what they're focusing on. The terminology used. It's more like recon. Know the "enemy".

[-] neomis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

This. I used to lurk on r/conservative so when the in-laws came to visit I had a response to the bs they spewed. “Did you know Obama is giving every poor person an iPhone?” type stuff.

[-] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

@can@sh.itjust.works @neomis@sh.itjust.works In that case, you don't need your instance to be federated; if you simply want to check on the latest nonsense, you can directly access the "enemy's" instance. And what's more, you won't have to wonder if their content has been properly federated (missing posts or comments), or if someone from there blocked you.