Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below).
It seems that exploding-heads has also experienced a recent botswarm invasion. This is obviously another point in favor of defederating them, assuming you are worried about botswarms, which is currently being discussed here.
My advice to you all is please try to discuss this in a civil manner, we need not allow them to create divisive conflict inside our communities. No matter how the vote turns out, you're not going to be able to defederate from your fellow sh.itheads so be nice.
I've linked many of the previous discussions below so people who are out of the loop can get a general sense of the situation.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126 https://sh.itjust.works/post/410325
Lemmy.world just recently defederated them.
https://lemmy.world/post/747912
https://lemmy.world/post/577526
Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.
Ensuring diversity of servers is beneficial to the platform as a whole, but it is also not our responsibility to bear that burden.
TLDR, just wrap up any last points in this thread before we open the vote tomorrow. Please be civil.
EDIT: To clarify, this isn't the official vote, this is the final discussion. The vote thread will be posted tomorrow and you will only be allowed to make a single comment saying Aye or Nay.
EDIT2: Vote thread is up, this thread is now locked. Very lively discussion thread sh.itheads. Please try to be more respectful next time.
What Nazis? Stop devaluing real Nazism as a term for right wingers.
The only difference between today's MAGA movement and the OG Nazis is the branding.
Based on what?
Based on what CNN and their professor told them
They're chanting 'blood and soil' at alt-right marches. That's a do not pass go or collect $200 straight up nazi thing.
When did Make America Great Again Republicans chant blood and soil at an alt right march?
Charlottesville. The rally that was organized on t_d.
The one that trump said had a lot of very nice people. *
https://archive.ph/20170805203139/https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6rsng3/unite_the_right_in_charlottesville_next_week/
This post was stickied to the subreddit. Things got scrubbed after that girl was murdered. *
Charlottesville, 2017. As you might recall, they also committed an act of terrorism and killed a woman
The Unite The Right rally was not in fact a Republican March to support Donald Trump, it was a neo-Nazi rally to protest the tearing down of Confederate statues. These two are not related. Stalin being a leftist does not make leftists genocidal Russian dictators.
Nazis and Republicans wave very different flags.
Increasingly, no, they don't.