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A Lemmy Community to share links about and for amateur (ham) radio to advance the technology, and promote communication and international goodwill. This community IS NOT for CB, GMRS, MURS, FRS, etc topics unless they are related to ham radio in some way.

We won't tolerate personal insults, illegal activity, or anything contrary to good amateur practice.

If asking questions about regulations, please include your country because we recognize that, while the hobby is international, regulations often aren't.

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Possible Defederation of sh.itjust.works (self.amateur_radio)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TrojanHam to c/amateur_radio

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All:

As the mod for this community I just wanted to drop this note:

A community purportedly a clone of an overtly political, fascistic, misogynistic, and trolling subreddit was set up on this instance and, as a result, there has been discussion in the greater fediverse to defederate sh.itjust.works.

When I am a net control station, as when I'm operating any radio, I do not discuss politics and follow good amateur practice. When I was a kid I was taught that the hobby was to facilitate emergency communications, enhance technical progress, and promote international goodwill. I'm firmly of the opinion politics messes up that last point, in particular.

While, I don't want our hobby affiliated with hateful and violent content, I also want discussion to reach as broad an audience as possible. To that end, defederation would be unacceptable. Should sh.itjust.works be defederated I will be terminating my account and moving elsewhere. Should someone else choose to be a mod, I'll leave it up to you to decide but I will not be sticking around and will either delete this community (if possible), set up another amateur_radio community, or join an already existing one.

I appreciate you understanding and consideration.

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[–] greensky 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I totally agree with you. Reddit was authoritarian and removed communities it didn't like. Lemmy is supposed to be open. I am disappointed by the discussion on this topic. People lose their level-headedness and rational thinking in situations like these. Their inner caveman comes out. It's so disappointing.

[–] snakesnakewhale 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reddit was authoritarian and removed communities it didn't like

After scandalous media attention perhaps.

I obviously don't know how long you were on the site, but most of reddit's worst actors lived long and healthy lives, while some interesting ones (e.g. Unidan) got zapped on easy technicalities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wasn't Spez a mod on Jailbait, or did someone just make that up to make him look worse?

[–] can 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Unidan was intersting but he still used alts to manipulate votes

[–] snakesnakewhale 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah, it's not to say that he didn't violate ToS

more that a user like Violentacrez had to go down like the Hindenburg for their account to be removed while the funny trivia guy is permabanned for vote manipulation. Just saying that reddit isn't authoritarian, they're corporate; they hide their ugly niches and collect revenue from them until they become unprofitable.

[–] greensky 2 points 2 years ago

It is certainly authoritarian now. It might have been different 10 or 15 years ago but now it is authoritarian.

[–] Cannacheques 1 points 2 years ago

I think a lot of people just use alts to escape algorithms and data nets, get to see the world from different perspectives so to speak

[–] JadedIdealist 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't migrate from reddit in order to give Nazis a platform. If instances don't want to federate with instances that don't police hate speech/ advocating cruelty/violence to people who are different then those instance are well within their rights.

[–] Dirk_Darkly 1 points 2 years ago

This is why the block button exists. Your line isn't the same as everyone else's line. Outside of illegal content, spam or targeted harassment, there is going to be ambiguity and debate which doesn't call for full isolation of servers that don't comply with a particular set of ethics.

I personally have no horse in this race, though I can't say I advocate for emotionally driven decisions.