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The admins don't have plans on defederating.
Yah, saw that they locked down your vote on that, then made some sort of "why can't we all just get along" comment to rub it in.
And said something about the admin over there trying to work along with them on reducing the dunking. Yet that same admin is in another thread on hexbear assuring people that they are certainly not trying to reduce dunking in other servers, and saying basically "go for it".
Pretty silly. Glad my server has defed from the shitbirds.
For anyone curious about what that admin said.
I just looked through their profile and couldn’t find that comment. Did they delete it or something?
Most likely. Can't leave evidence of enabling shitty behaviour. This is a screencap from a thread where that admin was telling them to stop flooding meta posts on other instances that were considering defederating from them. I think it was Blahaj or Beehaw. One of those.
THanks, I had no idea how to find that again.
Yeah, not really the best way
Seems really fishy to me. TheDude defederated from Lemmygrad with zero community input, based on his own personal convictions. Now the admin team agrees to let in a rabid userbase of tankies, imaqtpie calls them a "valuable asset" in response to calls for defederation, and they actively get in the way of our attempts to organize a discussion/vote to defederate. Things feel different and not in a good way.
Unfortunately