Oh, thanks for explaining!

I've heard of stray comments on Lemmy, was 100% sure this was one of those.

no one's arguing that they can't make up their own rules.

also let people on other instances believe whatever they want; it has no bearing on you and you can block them and entire instances for yourself if you need to.

i don't want power tripping mods/admins or suppressive policies to make that decision for me; that's why so many people and I left reddit; i'm an adult who can make up my own mind and the lemmyverse already has the tools to empower me to do so.

this isn't reddit or a walled garden; in the fediverse it's the vegetables section of a community garden that was designed to maximize cross pollination and defederation episodes like this are like trying to install a permeable gate that don't stop that cross pollination.

Yes. That's close to what I recommended; try paying attention outside your bubble.

I think Beehaw.org is. We're 2/3 as well (now). .ml has some communities/users we've removed, but largely speaking .ml users have not caused any issues on our hosted communities, and we feel exposing them to our (generally awesome) communities is the net-positive here. Honestly .world's (lack of) moderation is more actively an issue for our mods, but since they're so big and we're a niche instance we really can't afford to de-federate from them.

The two main instances that have all three blocked are lemmy.cafe, and dubvee.org.

and silencing anybody who disagrees

My brother in Christ y'alls whole thing is blocking any instance that contains anybody who disagrees with your world view.

But right, its only bad when they do it and its good when you do it. 🙄

not different at all; they're doing the exact same thing and i think it's a testament to the fediverse's design that people with such diametrically opposed world views can exist on the same social media platform.

also, look at the toxicity being leveled at me here for my comment and coming from trekkies no less; the pot is calling the kettle black here.

consuming social media for the last 35 years or so; and ESPECIALLY with reddit; has taught me how to tolerate shit takes and high levels of toxicity and i think that's enabled me to see to how the discourse is happening in the entirety of the lemmyverse and the people who are putting themselves into a bubble through defederation are missing out, which will ultimately drive them away because it's choking off activity in the communities inside those bubbles and i think that the lack of content is going to drive away more people than any tankie ever could.

star trek matters to me and i want this instance to stick around; that's why i'm trying despite the toxicity and the bad faith arguments presented here.