Like I said, it's not as much about the lack of speed as the lack of communication. The timeline went "announce that major decisions will be democratic -> community votes to defederate almost immediately -> a week and a half of radio silence". If they weren't ready to start voting on such things yet, then let us know. If they felt the vote wasn't rigorous enough, just let us know. The chosen path can easily be interpreted as "the vote didn't go how we wanted so we're ignoring it", particularly when any requests for answers were generally, well, ignored.
Again, you're misunderstanding the idiom you used.
There are bad apples in the bunch. bad apples spoil the bunch. You can't "not allow a few bad apples to spoil the bunch", spoiling the bunch is what they do.
Understand, it's not that I think exploding heads in specific is the root of all evil. The nazi bar effect isn't the result of one bad actor turning everything bad. It's that sh.itjust.works has demonstrated that it takes well over a week to respond to what appears to be pretty blatant alt-right stuff and a public vote to disavow it, with pretty much admin silence over that week. Where were they? Why choose not to act? More importantly, why not say anything about the choice? This makes it look like a prime place for anyone sympathetic to come around and start astroturfing, and that's what they've done.
I'd feel much differently if there'd been any kind of explanation of why the first vote on agora was just summarily ignored despite the topic cropping up multiple times per day before and since, but aside from "we need some time to think" buried into comments, I'm not aware of anything. The admins were thinking something, and that is fine, but we weren't given the option to decide if we agreed or disagreed with the reasons for delaying and now rre-voting. I'd call that a bad look any day, but it's a much worse look immediately on the heels of big talk about making the server democratic.
I'd be happy to talk about why I think large servers are a mistake any time. The explanation is even partly couched in these answers, because I know some of the reasons things are slow is because of the size of the server.
Then we disagree on what is heinous, and I suppose that's how it's going to be. I think they are well past the line for "people I want to platform on social media", which is what federation ultimately is. It is not a legal action or something.
You can always just make an account over there to do that, without expanding their platform.
Hate groups rely very heavily on people sharing their shitposts around and amplifying their messages under the "look how dumb these dummies are" flag. That's what got Trump elected and why I have been forced despite every protest to know who fuckin Gr**n and B****rt are in the alt right. They thrive on the shadenfreude shares.
let’s not allow a few bad apples spoil the bunch.
That's the saying though. A few bad apples spoil the bunch. That's why you remove the bad apples. That's literally what that saying is about.
First link in parent post, original vote thread had lots of examples. Edit: the Lemmy.world posts also have examples.
My vote remains to defederate. Their administration are among the worst of the bad actors; to me, that is the primary issue as the admins will determine the shape of the instance. I have already pretty much abandoned this instance though, so take of that what you will. There is, in my opinion, an excessive amount of hand wringing and foot dragging over what should be a pretty easy question. As a consequence we've been flooded with very obvious apologist accounts and their bad faith arguments to protect their friends. I'd like to keep this account active but I'm deeply unimpressed with how this has all been handled and I no longer have much faith that sh.itjust.works is able to prevent itself from becoming a nazi bar.
In general I think instances this large are a mistake.
It's been going on for most of the server's lifespan. The vote to defederate exploding heads was a week ago now, and afaik the dude hasn't commented on it yet. Admins for the instance have said "we need more time".
IDK. I like this account but I think I'm going to close it off and go to another instance, maybe I'll return if this one gets its "sh.it" together. It'd be one thing to be given a reason for disregarding the vote - then I could decide if I agree or not - but the radio silence feels disrespectful given the nature of the request.
Skyrim wasn't novel or first to market in that regard. It was just furthering the gameplay of its own prequels. Your timeline seems weird in several ways though... Wow was seven years old by the time Skyrim released.
Eh, I think no man's sky has earned a second chance. They've actually refrained from releasing more games and just worked on their pet project, and though it's still flawed, it really is close to their described game.
You should just avoid buying games before or right after release, no matter who is making it.
First, I want to make it clear I'm not specifically talking about you personally, though I'm sure you're included in the group I'm talking about. I understand there's a lot of administration involved... That is one reason a big instance isn't a great idea, it takes much more work to do anything or make any significant changes.
I was pretty active on this instance and I have no idea who manages what. All I know is agora opened, we had a vote, and then we had a long period of people asking what's up and not being given any answers. Something like "we'd like to get a better voting system in place first" would have gone a long way.