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Does Beehaw benefit from federation? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bijuice@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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I saw this discussion brought up on a different thread and I though I'd get some more opinions on the matter.

The Beehaw community guidelines describe a place that's meant to be safe, friendly and encourages people to discuss their ideas in good faith. For the most part I feel like this community lives up to that; users of this instance are generally thoughtful with their responses. However, I don't feel like that level of quality extends to the users who post from other instances. Responses from those users are more likely to pendantic, overly argumentative, and unhelpful.

Now I may just be an elitist fuck so I'd like to hear your opinions on this. Does Beehaw benefit from federation? Do the community guidelines even matter if they don't apply to many of the people who engage with this instance? Am I just looking for a reason to complain?

EDIT: This post isn't a request for Beehaw to defederate btw. I just wanted to discuss the negatives of federation and what we can do to alleviate them :)

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[–] rjh@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which is exactly what’s happening when an NT prefers the company of a member of a hate group above the company of someone with an autism diagnosis.

What do you suggest though? We can't force NTs to spend time with autistic people, and it wouldn't be constructive.

[–] YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I do is challenge this attitude when I see it. People think it's acceptable to reject autistic people socially, and they continue to think this because nobody's ever pointed out the inherent ableism in such an attitude. It's just considered acceptable to feel that way, just like it would have been acceptable in the 1940s for a white person to not want Black people living in their neighbourhood- the same arguments were put forth, that integration could not and should not be forced on people. Now we know that is wrong. It's time to know that social rejection of autistic people simply on the basis of autism is also wrong.