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How? They remain in their own instance.
if they're remaining on their own instance, what's the problem with defederating from them?
Since it means no one from sh.it can wander into their threads.
I like controversial discussions and challenging bigoted opinions (which is allowed on EH), but if sh.it was to defederate, I won't be able to do that.
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https://sh.itjust.works/comment/298391
why did you link to a chain I already responded to?
Because it's still relevant to what you're saying.
You: They stick to their own instance
Me: Here's the proof they're not
But all of the communities and controversial posts are posted inside the exploding-heads instance.
When copying the permalink to a message in a discussion the link is to the commenting user's instance even if it was posted on a community that's not on their instance. Both links are provided are from discussions on sh.itjust.works main community.
But in the example images you linked, all the posts are exclusive to the Exploding-Head instance communities.
I'm looking to one of my own replies but the wall of pictures might not make it clear so I'll just paste it here, the way things work the links are to the user's instance even if the comments/posts are in another instance:
https://exploding-heads.com/comment/95292
https://lemmy.world/post/279473
The links are from other instances but are replies on our instance, the second one if from a lemmy.world user that is then shown to be a exploding-heads user.
Oh, apologies, my mistake then. These links are much better.
That one user posting in lemmy.world is a problem, yeah. But the other guy, which is an admin at EH, didn't break any rules with his comment.
But from the beginning my arguments have revolved around users from extremist communities going to generalist forums (no matter the platform) to recruit and that's exactly what they're doing there.
I can understand how that's an issue. I used to be in burggit because they advertised free discussion... Annnd then I saw something rather disgusting as burggit got defedrated. So instead I made this account, which I suppose goes to show that defederating doesn't do anything.
Presently there are no rules against advertising your instance.