Catpocalypse

You're asking a person with a day job who is doing a cool thing for the fediverse community and set up a community in sh.itjustworks (Agora) to handle these possible future blocks to give you a granular breakdown of the blocking of one instance in a justification they don't really owe you.

The community itself is trying to be chill and just vibe. If what we're doing fits what you're looking for, welcome.

Thank you! I haven't been looking online but thought it would be fun to try out. The idea of winning though getting rid of cards seems so strange to me that I'm hesitant to try it.

I ran across a string of bots pulling in AITA posts and it was like... just why?

We know that in the anthropological record examples exist of people being cared for exist that should not have otherwise survived. So it's fair to say that at least some of us do have the desire to care for others within us.

Community support efforts exist. There are always people who will do for others without the expectation of reward. I've been the beneficiary of it and the giver of it when I can.

We also have plenty of contrary examples as well. It's easy to look at, say, the growing income inequality as an easy example of at best indifference to the suffering of others and news feeds focus on the harm we as humans do to each other.

You can make an argument for both things being true.

We would not have survived as a species if we did not learn to cooperate and there can be those who will put themselves above all others at the expense of everyone else.

Given that your account showed up immediately during the defederation of sh.itjustworks discussion and the removal of a certain account and community, I think the bad faith argument is valid.

Aye

Personally, I came to sh.itjustworks because when choosing a server the message was "these more popular servers aren't taking new people, go elsewhere."

It said that there would be no bigotry tolerated and I took that at face value and it generally aligned with what I was looking for otherwise and was accepting new users, so I signed up.

I can't speak for others.

Now how that's evolving (Agora, etc) so it's a work in progress and you're right, things aren't necessarily moving on a timeline that suits everyone (including me) because many people are not used to situations where we're having to figure it out as we go along, so here we are.

I think I've seen at least six different user names depending on the thread, including Agora threads.

It's absolutely all done in bad faith.

I don't know but it seems that this particular community didn't exist until the dust-up regarding explodingheads and the discussions that have occurred afterward, including the Agora vote.

So, to me it seems that it was started in retaliation to that particular discussion/event.

The active user at the core continually changes their display name, making it more difficult to know that you're replying to the same person unless you're checking the account, as they only mod the one community.

That alone makes it bad faith or trolling, however you want to phrase it, and it seems both the user and the community are at odds with the overall environment that many users came to this instance for.

I think it actively hampers the conversation we were having with beehaw regarding refederation, and don't disagree with their observation in the matter.

Yes, we as users can block them. And?

Call it growing pains call it whatever you'd like but I think that ignoring the larger context behind why it's here and here now is missing the point of why "just block it as a user" isn't the ideal solution.

Honestly I'm still trying to get over my lurker habits. They're very hard to break.

imaqtpie

Bad dice gotta go in time out. At least that's why I need multiple sets. It's not because of the shiny or anything.