Hey dude, thanks for dropping by.

Just wanted to say that I appreciate the direction you're trying to herd cats towards.

@TheDude

Hello and thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.

I appreciate you clarifying your stance on future blocking for both personal reasons and along the human decency lines. While I may lean fairly deeply into free speech territory, I also recognize the need for certain limits. The balance you've struck seems to be very reasonable, though I admit to being a hair surprised by the community driven approach.

I look forward to seeing which direction the community takes the instance.

Are you planning to actively moderate against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia?

will continue to defederate instances that openly promote or spreads hate speech

That's great but please define hate speech and give us some examples.

I appreciate the thorough response, but yeah, you kind of did miss my main question. I am just trying to find out if it is @TheDude's intention to block other subs that conflict too strongly with his views.

I really don't care much one way or another if one instance that I am pretty unlikely to interact with is blocked, but I want to find out if it is a single event or if he just hasn't had a chance to ban all the groups that offend him.

Seems like you didn't actually read my post.

This is the new parking lot that I am checking out. It seems pretty nice so far, but there is a weird statue in the corner. If it is just a one off that is cool. If it is the first among many then maybe I need to keep driving around.

Edit: Seems like I combined the two posts when responding, but I think I am going to leave it as is.

I don’t see @Nahvi@sh.itjust.works harassing anyone but asking questions I also personally find interesting. I started my life in the fediverse on this instance since a) I wanted to distribute the load new users were (still are?) generating moving away from Reddit b) the rules were good (upvote/downvote, nsfw, etc) and c) the name. I didn’t bother about checking the instance-admins preferences and only now learning about de-federation. And now I am wondering if I should ease down my enthusiasm because I might need to switch to an other instance (later than sooner).

So yes, maybe a few personal words about the instance and especially about other federated instances I would be curious to read.

Please keep up the good work though @TheDude@sh.itjust.works . I can’t imaging how much work is involved in keeping this instance alive and have great respect.

Exactly. There’s so many instances for anyone who don’t like one to migrate to

That sounds like a good reason to block that idiot or maybe even that community from my own thread, but I would rather make my own choice as to when someone or a community is not acting in good faith. I don't need someone with different values than my own trying to protect me from some words I might find offensive.

On the other hand, blocking burggit so I don't have simulated CP showing up in my feed is not the kind of choice that I need clarification about.

If this was one of the larger instances that has defederated a bunch of instances like lemmy.world, I wouldn't have blinked that it defederated another one. Sh.itjust.works has exactly two blocked instances, one of which seems to invite pedos the other seems like a political group. In my mind, those are a bit different and worth asking a question or two about before deciding this place isn't as welcoming as it seemed from the outside.

lemmygrad.ml is generally defederated.

The fact that a bunch of other instances also defederated something has no bearing at all on my thoughts or opinions.

To explain it, remember r/thedonald?

I do remember r/thedonald. Though it has been awhile the thing that stands out in my memory is that reddit seemed to ban it because other redditors couldn't stand it being around, not because it violated their TOS.

Its an extremist group.

lemmygrad.ml might be filled with extremists and is definitely not my cup of tea, but blocking any and all groups that are a little different from mainstream standards is not the kind of thing I can get behind.

Most of our beloved democratic, republican, and liberal ideals were extremist views not so long ago.

Are you saying lemmygrd.ml is not an extremist group? Or are you defending them?

And just so we are clear, I downvoted you because of this kind of you have to agree with me or you are defending me enemy phrasing.

You said the community that mainly contains the following message would be as extreme as TD.

I support freedom. I support individual right to choose.

What does that even mean? I know a lot of republicans struggle with this concept. Don’t bully them. Their smooth brains struggle.

Guns kill people. Every other country has solved this problem. Control who has access to guns. Do you really think you will stand up to the entire government, military, with a single assault rifle? Grow the fuck up. Make your community better. Stop living in perpetual fear.

Women have a right to decide for themselves. Abortion is always an option. A ball of cells is not a baby. Its not murder. Stop forcing rape victims to birth.

Christian ministers, priests, reverends. These are the single biggest perpetrators of molestation. Supporting christianity is supporting the destruction of childhoods.

How many drag queens have been arrested abd charged? How many catholics?

look inwards. take a moment to consider why you’re being built, pushed, towards hate.

You can change. You can open your eyes. You can be accepted. I have forgiveness for those who are genuine. Reality is here for you.

do you not consider why you’re attacked or ostracised from society? Its because your views are toxic. Your views are hateful. Your views go against what the majority of humanity wants and stands for.

You can be better. You can grow and learn.

Hand in your fascist card. We can accept you. Just let go of your hate and anger.

Propaganda has blinded you. Its your choice to simply turn away. Help exists wherever you reach out.

Open your eyes.

Open your eyes

We are here for you. We are here to support your journey back to reality.

It’s scary. But you have support. Just ask.

https://lemmy.world/post/108227

Thanks for letting me add this

Thank you for literally putting words in my mouth, quotation marks and all.

If you had bothered to spend one minute reading the post, that I literally spend thirty minutes typing up, you would have noticed that the first sentence was to express appreciation for the time and money @TheDude on creating and maintaining this instance. At no point did I say he was wrong or even that I disagreed with his choice. I just asked for clarification on the matter.

That makes sense and I probably should have considered it more, though I also thought it would be useful if the response was public. Since I went searching for it myself, I thought other new users might do the same.