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disclaimer i have no opinion on this “media bias/fact check”, site. i just think the “don’t outsource critical thinking” comment is hilarious

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lol let me guess lemmy.ml? Surprised we haven't defederated from them yet. It's pretty much the new hexbear

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Big instances straight up defederating does run the risk of causing a mass migration like with Hexbear, throwing ultra mega instances like .world into further moderation turmoil.

So that’s a choice that has to be made with care, though not a terrible one in the long term so long as the short term repercussions can be handled.

In the meantime I like reccomending folks join small instances with a defederation list and mod team they like (like mine). 🙂

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not Canadian, the only reason I picked lemmy.ca was because they defederated from hexbear good and early :o

[–] barsquid 5 points 4 months ago

That does show good judgement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

That filth goes to wherever they can troll people. The minute we ban .ml you'll see blahaj become the cesspit.