I remember when I joined here that tchncs did not federate with Lemmygrad. Is there a reason why it is now? I don't think it's a good instance, since it full of (roleplaying) communists hating on the western world... and I wouldn't want that shit in my "All" feed. Thank you.
From the outside, lemmygrad isn't prone to people seeking to disrupt other instances, nor towards actively "proselytizing" in a disruptive manner. While the whole instance is too extremist for my tastes (and I'm borderline socialist tbh), the people from there tend to be respectful and follow community/instance rules elsewhere.
It really is one of those things where having access to user instance blocking is a great idea, so the we could just avoid posts from there, but still have the users as part of the greater fediverse. I use connect 95% of the time, and the blocking it does shows an option when you run across comments from a blocked instance, allowing you to decide to deal with it or not. I really like that setup but I don't think it would be viable as a part of the lemmy software itself.
No bullshit, I have accounts on instances that haven't defederated with lemmygrad, and the people tend to be very chill when not on their instance.
For me, that's the standard I use when someone calls for defederation: is the instance as a whole the problem, is it the users, and/or is the instance actively seeking to disrupt other places. Exploding heads, as the worst possible example of needing wide defederation, was full of users actively seeking to disrupt other instances. Hexbear was actively planning that kind of behavior. Lemmygrad never has that I've seen.
Again, I'm here from another instance, and I don't have an account here, just giving an external view of things for conversation's sake :)
While I don't agree with Lemmygrad politically, they are civil, respect community rules and don't spam. It's not like they are calling for violence or posting CP or unmarked gore. If you don't want to see socialists in your feed, just block them.
Marxist Leninist/Stalinist viewpoints are violent by default. It's completely part of their theory that violent revolution is required to overthrow the status quo to implement the Vanguard State (more violence, though through the guise of conformity) and without that there is no ability to transition to communist society.
All ideologies are violent by default. It's just whether that violence is intended to enforce the current order and property claims or used to overthrow that order.
Just block the communities when you see them. I never see them, and I only had to block a few.
I had not seen them breaking any rules, aside from maybe brigading. Haven’t seen them being bigots or anything. They’re just confused edgy western kids cheering for Russia and pretending they like communism from their shiny new iPhones.
I know you didn't ask for my glittering social commentary, but your point is looking at it from the wrong angle:
Shiny new iPhones and loud, shittily tuned cars are status symbols in Russia as well. In Russia's slums, you will often see people pay their groceries using their brand new iPhone so they can flex and pretend and then they'll return to their desolate apartment with broken furniture and dishes, rusted water pipes and a dirty, fucking mattress.
People will rather cheap out on essentials and make their life miserable than to let go of their idolized brands that help them to pretend their life choices were perfect.
They’re just confused edgy western kids cheering for Russia and pretending they like communism from their shiny new iPhones.
And why should any serious instance ever want to connect to that? It's not only individual communities (where blocking makes sense), it's the whole instance.
If you want to block on mass anyone you find annoying, go for it. But don't assume that everyone else wants to create an an echochamber of like-minded people, especially not on an instance-wide level some admin making the decision on behalf of everyone.
social.tchncs.de does not believe in censorship. Federation is a network service and suspension of federation with another server will only be implemented as a last resort where content from another server may cause problems under German law, or in cases of technical difficulties or hostile or malicious activity.
sorry about that. i was sure i had it added again after the restore of our blocklist based on mastodon a little while back. it is now on the list... again... .
i understand that you are disappointed and it does not have to be a permanent decision. right now i lack time and energy to give it a close look again. earlier the instance did not look like something we should federate with based on its general content and our experience.
Come on, pal. Just read a couple Marxist books. You won't hate it once you understand it. Come on, just read Blackshirts and The Reds by Michael Parenti. Be my comrade.
I mean, you don't have to read a book. You could just read the Internet. But you do have to read something. It really all just boils down to whether or not you think things would be better if we had a democratic workplace instead of a workplace dictatorship. If you think the workers should share the profits instead of a couple people that don't actually do any work.
People need to stop agitating for defederation on the basis of politics.
If you want a safe space for one or another "team," start one yourself. I'm not interested in participating on instances which engage in this type of petty behavior.