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Here is the thread of theirs

I have been looking through a long thread on another instance where a few users have been trying to convince that instance to defederate from Exploding Heads - because they do not want to see the content posted on Exploding Heads.

I have thought long and hard about how to please these people. They do have the option to individually block Exploding Heads communities or users, but they either do not know how to or simply do not want to.

In the end I realized if I ban those specific users requesting defederation from Exploding Heads - they will not see any content from Exploding Heads and therefore will not be offended by it. (Truth be told I am not sure if some of these users have really visited our site or interacted with our users).

So today I have banned those users with the explanation that they have said they do not want to see Exploding Heads content. If any of those users wish to be unbanned in the future, all they have to do is say so and I will happily unban them.

These users are not being banned in order to censor them, but to help them achieve what they have been requesting - to not see Exploding Heads content.

I hope you all find this a fair and reasonable action - if not let me know.

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[โ€“] Kecessa 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] goat -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why did you link to a chain I already responded to?

[โ€“] Kecessa 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] goat -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But all of the communities and controversial posts are posted inside the exploding-heads instance.

[โ€“] Kecessa 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] goat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But in the example images you linked, all the posts are exclusive to the Exploding-Head instance communities.

[โ€“] Kecessa 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] goat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Kecessa 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] goat -1 points 1 year ago

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.