Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem

• Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Voting to block a domain and having that domain blocked isn’t comparable to electing an authoritarian leader. Dbzer0 can choose who to and not to federate with. Users who don’t like that move to another instance easily.

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  • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Voting to block a domain and having that domain blocked isn’t comparable to electing an authoritarian leader.

    Nobody has said that? What it does is remove the choice from each individual, which is authoritarian, even if done via majority vote. There was nothing stopping those who wanted the domain blocked to do that themselves.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nobody removed your choice to change servers

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nobody removed your choice to change servers

        Further evidenced by the fact they’re posting from their non-db0 account after saying they voted on the topic with their db0 account.

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    • Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just don’t see it as authoritarian. Wasn’t on a whim, it was voted, and the majority voted to defederate. Does it remove user choice, sure I guess., but so does any form of moderation.

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• QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Authoritarian is a basically meaningless word already but “people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.

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  • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.

    You’re right, that would be idiotic. Good thing I didn’t define authoritarian that way, and no, it is not a meaningless word, you can (in fact) look it up in a dictionary which describes the meaning fairly well.

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    • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The linked definition doesn’t match with you calling the vote/outcome authoritarian.

      Authoritarian/authoritarianisn is so widely defined that literally every country, organisation and movement fits it by necessity in class society

      Authoritarian is a pejorative used by idiots to avoid grappling with the reality of one class necessarily suppressing another in class society.

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    • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You didn’t define authoritarianism or specifically say how it is so in this case, leaving us to guess and you to say we guessed wrong.

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