Comment on The Karen of Lemmy
gears@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoThen block the instance?
I’m really don’t understand the calls for defederation. Lemmy added per-user instance blocking so people could stop whining and block the instance. There’s no need to have the entire instance defederate instead of just blocking it.
Just think about a user making a post to whatever admin community for their instance. That takes so much more work than just blocking the instance.
neatchee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because deplatforming works. Because tolerating intolerance eventually results in the tolerant being extinguished.
If I’m hosting a party and there’s a Nazi on my front lawn, I don’t care if I and my guests can mute them, block them, whatever. I’m going to get rid of them. I don’t want new guests seeing them when they arrive. I don’t want every single person to have to be exposed to the Nazis first before they can then block them out. I don’t want the Nazis to exist at all. Nazis don’t deserve to exist. We went to war to kill Nazis and I’d vote to do it again if I could.
It’s our house. Our community. No. Fucking. Nazis. No toxicity. We don’t have to suffer them to exist.