The previous thread dunking on this lacked context and has been removed by the mods (for sectarianism in the post-text). @invalidusernamelol (who wasn’t OP) provided added context just before the thread was removed, which I think deserves its own thread to clear up some of the questions that came up.
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3aORDGFBQG.png - user complains about “tankies” “[justifying] a genocide”, Discord mod agrees and threatens to ban the “tankie”.
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/RGIHhkkpa4.jpg - “tankie” in question’s messages “[justfying] a genocide”.
Unfortunate if this is the stance of the moderators of the Discord.
Edited to clarify I didn’t mean the Hexbear moderators - thanks to @WhyEssEff for letting me know how this read.
It’s deliberately hard-coded, because the original Lemmy devs wanted to make it harder for right-wingers to use the software. But yeah, it’s a bit blunt. Still manages to catch some wreckers, though, and you know that when one knows how to get around it that means it’s not their first time here.
It makes it so they have to modify the code to remove it if they want to set up a Lemmy instance. I think it also just makes them mad and pushes them away from picking Lemmy for their websites.
Wouldn’t a non-hardcoded one also involve that? Or couldn’t they just have both? :thinkin-lenin:
