Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I agree with others that article was 100% Russian propaganda. Rule 2 of that community is "No links to misinformation". So YDI in that respect.

A month seems like an excessive ban for a first? infraction though - I would have thought a simple removal could have sufficed. So I guess there's a bit of PTB too.

See the sidebar, specifically About voting rights and flairs. Those flairs mean those members mentioned a pirate in their application, and their votes count towards the "local community" sentiment. 100% of members with voting rights voted for defederation.

What I'm planning to do is to edit the very top of the post with a short TLDR so that anyone stumbling on the post later can see at a glance that the problem has been dealt with, and that we are not defederating from your instance. Would you be happy with that approach?

Thanks for making this post. It was great to get your side of the story.

I acknowledge I pushed pretty hard on this topic, mostly because in the related YPTB post you didn't seem very open to taking action initially. We are trying to practice open governance on this instance with direct input from the community, so I thought the best thing in this case was just to ask the community to weigh in. What is telling is that, even without providing much context other than the top communities list, the vast majority of our instance members clearly already knew it was a right wing instance judging by the voting.

But to be honest, I think your reputational concerns are mostly unfounded. The way I see it, your instance already had a bad reputation for being a right-wing instance simply because of the communities and mods that set up shop there. That's kind of how this all came about. However, the way you responded to the situation has been great, and anyone reading this post would be able to see that the problem has been dealt with, and that you seem like a genuinely nice person. That can only help your instance's reputation in the long run, I would think. And now hopefully you have a fresh start.

So you are arguing that helping Ukraine to fight off an illegal Russian invasion is "escalation"? What sort of perverted logic is this? The only government responsible for this war is Russia's. They could end it tomorrow if they wanted to. You're basically just arguing that it's unfair Ukraine got the weapons it needed to fight back. Russia has been using long and medium range missiles against Ukraine, but Ukraine is expected to fight with it's hands tied? You've been drinking campist koolaid.

What a piece of junk. Tesla surely can't survive this amount of bad press and boycotts. Hopefully.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I just stumbled on this community randomly, but I'm so glad I did. Thanks for all the great content, I hope this will blow up :)

Honestly, that all sounds quite reasonable to me, and seems like a good faith response to my original complaint. Thank you for responding in the way you did.

If you implement those changes then I'd be willing to withdraw the defederation proposal and consider the problem resolved.

I guess the whole idea of this move is to force self-hosters to pay for a Plex pass. But it's a funny demographic to try to strongarm into a subscription. Most tech savvy self-hosters won't think twice about spinning up a Jellyfin instance instead, especially given that it's FOSS. And for those folks with a lifetime Plex pass this makes no difference.,

The problem is all your top communities are run by these right wing guys. I know you probably don't want to have to trawl through every post, and neither do I. But shit attracts flies.

You should be made aware, for example, that the user who posted this https://thelemmy.club/post/23635160 and this https://thelemmy.club/post/23387257 in "Right Wing Videos" is a literal neo-nazi (see his Mastadon post profile here: https://friends.ravergram.club/@Bernard). I'm sure if we dig around some more there will be many more examples.

Unfortunately we can see where things are headed because we already had to deal with instances like exploding heads. I think that, while the mods themselves seem well behaved enough to not get reported, they are effectively acting as cover for the more unsavoury characters that right wing instances invariably attract.

Unless you want to spend all your time checking those communities, I just think you're better off without them. You are right that jumping straight to a defed vote is a bit harsh maybe, but I think if we just blocked the communities then there would be no real pressure on you to take any further action, and personally I think it would be better for the fediverse to not have right wing content platformed.

It also means they will now have official payment info to tie everyones identity to their Plex server. So if the cops come-a-knocking they'll be fully able to comply with information requests.

They aren't, all their server does is handle the login authentication afaik, and then streaming happens directly from the server to the user.

Here, I fixed it:

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lmao me either

I thought about that, but tbh I also wanted to put pressure on the admin to take action against the right wing communities and community bans would not have achieved that.

Even better then :)

Nice one :)

I've received 3 or 4 removed DMs from Nicole lately, so it's working for me so far.

Awesome work.... I'm sure @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com will be pleased you've automated his guide :)

I think you might have forgotten to link the article?

I think they forgot to link the article? Let's see if it gets added in.