My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there’s little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt

Aye and nays pls

Edit: putting the screencaps I posted below here for clarity

I should probably put a content warning so

CW: homophobia, transphobia, and just being a shithead.

Edit 2: let’s try not to downvote people just saying nay. Unless they are making bad faith arguments we should respect their opinions even if we disagree.

Edit 3: Imma be real with y’all, this has been a real shitshow. We gotta work out some kinda single voting infrastructure because the ayes and Nays isn’t efficient at all.

  • greenashura@sh.itjust.works
    104·
    1 year ago

    Aye

    As another user said, hate speech is not free speech. And associating with an instance such as that one could even have legal implications for @TheDude in the future.

    Edit: Typo

    • chalkman@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      True, there are laws against hate speech in Canada. Depending on how data is hosted it could put liability on them as server owner, but I am unfamiliar with the legal side and am not familiar with the source code for lemmy so take that with a grain of salt.