These assholes came out on day fucking one and did nothing but demonstrate that their goal was to be disruptive trolls. And then they sit there and whine about how everyone else is brainwashed, and nobody wants to listen to alternative points of view. That alternative point of view, apparently being pictures of pig shit.

And then they are shocked that people think they are assholes.

every time a new instance spins up

To be fair, Hexbear has been around a lot longer than lemmy.ca

You defederate or screen all sports content? Is this a personal preference, or do sports subs attract hateful content?

Thanks! I didn't realize that you could put /instances after an instance's URL (e.g., lemmy.ca/instances) and see which are currently linked and blocked (page search can help)

You like them posting pictures of pig shit? Real high quality conversation.

I can deal with them posting links to Lenin or Jacobin or whatever, but they literally just come in and post the same picture of actual pig shit over and over again. These are not people who have any interest in good faith conversation.

your instance is full of reactionaries

*Tankies.

Not communists lol authoritarians.

No we dropped the ball on this one, we should have posted right away.

Lemmy.ml has been defederated for a long time.

https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347

I understand that defederating is part of running an instance and that decisions are not always clear cut. If I were an admin, I'd report newly defederated instances in a post or something. It doesn't seem like appreciably more work than what being an admin already entails (which must be a lot!) and makes things transparent. I'm here in the Fediverse because I don't like what's going on on the rest of the big tech internet, and I want to get involved in an alternate model. Hearing that a politically aligned instance was silently defederated on .ca reminds me of what I am hoping to distance myself from online versus find more of now. Ditto for the the downvotes without replies. That said, other commenters have helped me see site maintenance as opposed to political orientation reasons that could motivate defederation. On reflection, I think I want to get involved in an expressly curated (in a way that I approve of) and/or pretty transparent Fediverse environment

They weren't "defederated for political reasons". What they were doing wasn't good faith political speech. They were trolls who's only purpose was creating chaos. If you're really dedicated to their actions this is the fediverse, you can create an account there and read and participate as much as you want. Every user can decide for themselves if there is anything of any value there. I don't think so so I'll be staying right here.

There's a certain irony to celebrating the admins building a wall between two communities as "freedom".