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A Lemmy Community to share links about and for amateur (ham) radio to advance the technology, and promote communication and international goodwill. This community IS NOT for CB, GMRS, MURS, FRS, etc topics unless they are related to ham radio in some way.

We won't tolerate personal insults, illegal activity, or anything contrary to good amateur practice.

If asking questions about regulations, please include your country because we recognize that, while the hobby is international, regulations often aren't.

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Possible Defederation of sh.itjust.works (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the mod for this community I just wanted to drop this note:

A community purportedly a clone of an overtly political, fascistic, misogynistic, and trolling subreddit was set up on this instance and, as a result, there has been discussion in the greater fediverse to defederate sh.itjust.works.

When I am a net control station, as when I'm operating any radio, I do not discuss politics and follow good amateur practice. When I was a kid I was taught that the hobby was to facilitate emergency communications, enhance technical progress, and promote international goodwill. I'm firmly of the opinion politics messes up that last point, in particular.

While, I don't want our hobby affiliated with hateful and violent content, I also want discussion to reach as broad an audience as possible. To that end, defederation would be unacceptable. Should sh.itjust.works be defederated I will be terminating my account and moving elsewhere. Should someone else choose to be a mod, I'll leave it up to you to decide but I will not be sticking around and will either delete this community (if possible), set up another amateur_radio community, or join an already existing one.

I appreciate you understanding and consideration.

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[–] MiddleWeigh 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think, ime, people are kind of afraid of some basic truths, and that lends to them putting their head in the sand.

People are not used to being in control of their own media, and now that they have to be mindful of their own content, they are surprised at just how awful people can be.

I'm not really sure what the best way to handle intolerance is, but I personally rather be able to view it, and interact with it, if I want. It's like the real world. It's messy and ambiguous.

Some, not all, of those hateful people have just been raised and indoctrinated by ignorance and need a path out of that perspective. I think shutting them in makes the problem worse tbh. . What do we owe the intolerant people as fellow humans? I pity them because I am empathetic to how they were twisted that way.

At the same time there are definitely people who just love to hate and feed off it, and I think it's important to know the difference.