lemmy.ml meta

I’ve seen a lot of posts like this across multiple instances. Now, obviously it’s up to individual owners/mods/communities. But, do we just defederate from everything we don’t agree with? Sounds kinda like when mods would ban people for interacting with another subreddit.

You can block them and move on, without banning all discourse.

Not trying to defend them, cause I have many tirades against Putin sympathizers, but, defederating as a first impulse feels wrong imo. That should be left for security issues (see lemmy.world) or things like corporate entities (meta).

I don't think anyone should be allowed to use the word "tankie" without pre-defining it. That said, you should also be informed that lemmygrad isn't pro-Putin but anti-NATO and especially anti-American imperialism. This means Russia is supported critically (as in you should be critical of it in your support of it. And in Russia's case extremely critical because it's a capitalist state with awful human rights laws) in this war. Of course opinions differ.

You should also not be surprised that lemmy.ml is filled with socialists, though the volume's a bit diluted since Reddit's API changes and the flood of new users. It's also run by socialists. You should not take that to mean you're not welcome here, either. On the contrary, anyone is so long as everyone follows the code of conduct which contains the obvious things you would expect: no slurs, don't harass, don't spam, etc.