I’m not sure what you’re referring to re: name-calling tbh, and I think this thread is an overreaction, but I agree with you that non-private communities have some obligation to civility or something like that

For the record, I think you contribute a lot to Lemmy, and I really appreciate it. OP’s being melodramatic because blocking a community chock full of content they’d rather not see on their personalized feed (and isn’t hateful, illegal, etc.) isn’t good enough for them. I guess they also need to troll and police different perspectives and how many posts they comprise on this great fedi platform. That’s good for Lemmy /s. Someone should post a PSA about blocking communities that don’t break rules but just aren’t one’s cup of tea. The behaviour helps Lemmy grow and stay diverse. For similar reasons, lemmynsfw (ie, the main porn/adult instance) removed downvotes: because minority communities (eg, rarer kinks) were being downvoted into oblivion - stifling growth and frustrating community members and mods - by people downvoting stuff they didn’t like on their feed versus blocking it

I don’t think it’s intended to provoke non-vegan people, I think it’s meant to be a ‘for us, by us’ community. PSA to all: there’s a block community button for communities that are not hateful or illegal (you should report those) but are things you’d prefer not to see on your personalized feeds

Thanks for getting the word out about this, Beaver! With this and the pro-Zionist so-called ‘media bias fact check’, LW is turning to shit. I strongly dislike the anonymity of the actioning mod in the mod log. Can you name the PoS who decided to abuse their power to attack a vegan community? I’m not a fan of the theoryclub due to experiences with one mod, but I’ll be on the ML and solarpunk vegan communities!

I think war and terrorism are wrong in almost all forms. Also politics is very complex. People telling you, “here’s what to think, the situation is black and white, and That person is a monster, case closed.” are simple-minded rage baiters. I spent too long fact-checking poorly written CBC articles yesterday. I don’t want to see sensational posts about complex issues where the stakes are an immense amount of human suffering on my feed. @onefriend1 blocked

Thanks, I appreciate the post and response!

Thanks!

I understand that defederating is part of running an instance and that decisions are not always clear cut. If I were an admin, I’d report newly defederated instances in a post or something. It doesn’t seem like appreciably more work than what being an admin already entails (which must be a lot!) and makes things transparent. I’m here in the Fediverse because I don’t like what’s going on on the rest of the big tech internet, and I want to get involved in an alternate model. Hearing that a politically aligned instance was silently defederated on .ca reminds me of what I am hoping to distance myself from online versus find more of now. Ditto for the the downvotes without replies. That said, other commenters have helped me see site maintenance as opposed to political orientation reasons that could motivate defederation. On reflection, I think I want to get involved in an expressly curated (in a way that I approve of) and/or pretty transparent Fediverse environment

Thanks! I didn’t realize that you could put /instances after an instance’s URL (e.g., lemmy.ca/instances) and see which are currently linked and blocked (page search can help)

Was there any vote or announcement about this on lemmy.ca? Or are we hearing after the fact, and on another instance, that our instance has contentiously and quietly defederated from 2 other instances?