Whole post is dogshit, but Lemmygrad is the only sizeable instance blocked on beehaw, so I can’t help but assume this is mostly addressed about us:
Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it
Our admins ban all bigotry, and are extremely quick to ban them, so this is complete bullshit. In addition per @CriticalResist8 , they originally claimed that they blocked us because we were too active and filling up their disk space (spoiler: they were just incompetent, it was just log files they weren’t deleting). I hate these smug, weaselly little liars dude :hasan-smash:
Also, the comments complaining about the lemmy devs again. Please, I beg you, switch to kbin you fucking losers. The devs never should have helped your bum asses out. They offer free hosting, put your server in reccomended (and in fact were only 1 of 2 in the recommended section for a long time!), basically bend over backwards to accommodate you and all you can think of is “muh evil tankies”
I find the strain of far-left over there that is more concerned with backbiting and defending former-communist and current parody-communist regimes because blind ‘if west bad, not west good’ thinking, than any of the useful zones of leftist activity.
This is a “deeply left-person” so try to have a civil discussion with them
I find the other point Nullroad (not sure about pronouns, so won’t use any) makes to be highligthed, too:
I didn’t observe anything that was explicitly hate-speech in my 15 minutes buzzin’ around, but it didn’t really feel ‘kind’
I know few spaces that fell ‘kind’ after browsing around for 15 minutes (at least online spaces). In my opinion it does feel nice here, but not quite as nice as it did feel for me once, but that is not the point.
I for one was quite fond (and a couple of people I know) when they visited the site for the first times that there was no kind talk with reactionaries, but instead practical solidarity against transphobes and some other reactionaries including some clear antisemites.
“Not feeling kind” is also a descriptor of how neurotypical people perceive ASD communication styles.
FWIW, this place felt much “kinder” than Reddit, to me.
That first paragraph is quite a good point, that I didn’t think about.
Building up associations on that:
It might also be related to “tone arguments”, too. Favouring civilty over positve peace.
In addition plenty of white upper middle class US people from Texas that went to Germany did, at least those without intercultural communication courses, feel really put off by the German directness and rudeness, which is in part true, but also just in part a cultural difference (which individuals of course break all and every day).
I, too, feel that this place is much much kinder than reddit.
I don’t really give a shit what some beeshit liberals think. They’ll be back on Reddit swallowing state propaganda after their failed protest ends.
It’s true. I posted a requisitioned video from Hexbear that stated that “no act against [bigots] is wrong”. Days later and it’s still up. What is this if not hate speech towards bigots? :centrist:
I would suspect that many of them would identify as progressive because we are explicitly a safe space for minorities.
Me insisting people use my correct pronouns would get me banned for not being civil enough. I am not safe around these unscratched fascists
Beehaw does not tolerate hate speech. Beehaw is an explicitly safe space. We center and promote kindness because that is what we see and love in the world.
Oh my god they think hate speech is when people are mean.
I got banned for calling out a social darwinist and linked to the comment where they were social darwinist and anti natalist against poor on reddit from a major subreddit. So I can relate somewhat to your ban-experiences.
We center and promote kindness because that is what we see and love in the world.
Sounds like that Hippie stuff which lead to cults, bad esoteric stuff and anti materialism.
