Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below).
It seems that exploding-heads has also experienced a recent botswarm invasion. This is obviously another point in favor of defederating them, assuming you are worried about botswarms, which is currently being discussed here.
My advice to you all is please try to discuss this in a civil manner, we need not allow them to create divisive conflict inside our communities. No matter how the vote turns out, you're not going to be able to defederate from your fellow sh.itheads so be nice.
I've linked many of the previous discussions below so people who are out of the loop can get a general sense of the situation.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126 https://sh.itjust.works/post/410325
Lemmy.world just recently defederated them.
https://lemmy.world/post/747912
https://lemmy.world/post/577526
Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.
Ensuring diversity of servers is beneficial to the platform as a whole, but it is also not our responsibility to bear that burden.
TLDR, just wrap up any last points in this thread before we open the vote tomorrow. Please be civil.
EDIT: To clarify, this isn't the official vote, this is the final discussion. The vote thread will be posted tomorrow and you will only be allowed to make a single comment saying Aye or Nay.
EDIT2: Vote thread is up, this thread is now locked. Very lively discussion thread sh.itheads. Please try to be more respectful next time.
This only happens in the dreams of pedophiles. Also, nice attempt to link Trans people and pedophilia.
Parents get to choose if their children are taught Sex Ed classes in school. At least the parents that pay attention to what their children are learning and not spending all their time online waxing poetic about family values. Also, in Grade 2 they are learning about their bodies, not sex. This time your linking Trans people with sexually explicit content.
Each sport association is having these discussions. We should let the people actually affected by it make the decisions. Noticed you didn't mention Trans men though. This time you tried linking Trans women with hurting biological women.
You're trying to suggest that the Trans woman is forcing the biological woman to look at her. Should the Trans woman be forced to use the men's shower room then, where they will be forced to be uncomfortable and feel unsafe? You're trying to link Trans women with lewdness and possibly sexual assault.
Finally we've gotten away from this infatuation with Trans people. Repeat offender violent criminals don't just go free. The key there is violent. They won't be the first ones released when the remand centers become full. This time you used a racist dog whistle to talk about Black people without saying Black people.
What? No justice department officials have declared shoplifting legal. I imagine it must be difficult to identify and then prosecute a mob of people when it's one store, and not, say, Congress. Again, this time you used a racist dog whistle to talk about Black people without saying Black people.
This time you didn't really try to hide the racism. The honesty is kinda refreshing. Affirmative action is an imperfect answer to a difficult problem. But leaving people in poverty isn't an answer either.
Fixed that for you.