I don't make a habit out of arguing with people online; experience shows me that it is neither enjoyable, nor productive. I am also not above filtering out communities that I consider irritating. That said, I don't want to be a part of a community that is going to block any voices that are different from their own.
I am just trying to find out what kind of community this is before making it my home base for the foreseeable future.
That sounds like a good reason to block that idiot or maybe even that community from my own thread, but I would rather make my own choice as to when someone or a community is not acting in good faith. I don't need someone with different values than my own trying to protect me from some words I might find offensive.
On the other hand, blocking burggit so I don't have simulated CP showing up in my feed is not the kind of choice that I need clarification about.
I both looked around and did a search. The only comment I found from @TheDude was the one linked in my post. I am just asking for a little clarification as to whether this is a one-off or typical fare.
Edit: Just re-read the last bit. I don't want to wait around for weeks or months only to find out that I should have realized on day one that this was a bad fit.
Is it really so wrong to ask for a little clarification about one of two total Instances that have been blocked here?
I fully agree and if you read through my post you will notice this is not my first instance. It is just one that seems like a pretty good fit and has a name I like. I am hoping this one oddity is just that and not an indicator that @TheDude plans to block a bunch of other political instances later.
We really did just come here for the chill vibe, read the thing, and were like “yeah, this works for me.”
That is why I am here too.
I am hoping that some of the more acerbic comments in this thread are just an expression of those frustrations and not the same old social media junk. Hopefully time will show this instance to be as chill as it seemed at first.
Ah, thank you. I did overlook that distinction in that comment.
If this was one of the larger instances that has defederated a bunch of instances like lemmy.world, I wouldn't have blinked that it defederated another one. Sh.itjust.works has exactly two blocked instances, one of which seems to invite pedos the other seems like a political group. In my mind, those are a bit different and worth asking a question or two about before deciding this place isn't as welcoming as it seemed from the outside.
Thank you for literally putting words in my mouth, quotation marks and all.
If you had bothered to spend one minute reading the post, that I literally spend thirty minutes typing up, you would have noticed that the first sentence was to express appreciation for the time and money @TheDude on creating and maintaining this instance. At no point did I say he was wrong or even that I disagreed with his choice. I just asked for clarification on the matter.
lemmygrad.ml is generally defederated.
The fact that a bunch of other instances also defederated something has no bearing at all on my thoughts or opinions.
To explain it, remember r/thedonald?
I do remember r/thedonald. Though it has been awhile the thing that stands out in my memory is that reddit seemed to ban it because other redditors couldn't stand it being around, not because it violated their TOS.
Its an extremist group.
lemmygrad.ml might be filled with extremists and is definitely not my cup of tea, but blocking any and all groups that are a little different from mainstream standards is not the kind of thing I can get behind.
Most of our beloved democratic, republican, and liberal ideals were extremist views not so long ago.
Are you saying lemmygrd.ml is not an extremist group? Or are you defending them?
And just so we are clear, I downvoted you because of this kind of you have to agree with me or you are defending me enemy phrasing.
That is quite the interesting thread. Especially that History of Lemmy link. Not sure what I expected but it wasn't that.
And you are repeating my own words back to me in a different order as if it will surprise me into keeping my questions to myself.
Pardon me for trying to find out if I just wandered into an environment that is as chill and welcoming as it seems from the outside or another reddit where many genuine questions will get shouted down.
That would be perfectly reasonable. It might also be perfectly reasonable if @TheDude's grandmother was killed by communists. It might also be perfectly reasonable that he and the main admin at lemmygrad.ml have known and disliked each other for years.
My concern is that I don't know which one of those things that it is or if it is none of them. Before I settle down here, I would like to have a better idea of what here is.
Let me pill out an analogy:
Right now, I am sitting in a comfortable lounge with pretty chill people and all along one wall are a bunch of doors with windows in them, but for some reason two of the doors are locked and have their windows covered. One has a little note near it that says, "beware pedos beyond this door" which is all I want to know. The other door has a note that says, "beware politics beyond this door" which leaves me with a couple curiosities. After asking around all I hear is that it goes against the hosts personal convictions. Is it really so wrong to go ask the host what is going on?
I am not arguing the door should be unlocked or telling anyone that they are wrong. I am just asking what are the odds that he is going to lock more doors, and if so, what kind of doors should I expect to get locked in the future? Oh and as a side note if he is interested in engaging my personal curiosity, "what made this particular political door so bad in his eyes?"