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This is a bad take because you used the most extreme example of why defederation is a practical necessity to justify a significantly less serious issue. I personally would want the bar to be much higher for this kind of thing.
I also don't "misunderstand" anything here. I just strongly disagree with the decision. What's next, beehaw gets upset that other instances allow downvoting?
Hi, Beehaw user here. You can downvote me all you want and they'll never appear on my instance so that won't be an issue. I could be sitting at -50 on your instance and it'll always appear as 1 on mine.
Honestly though, I'm a big fan of the defederation decision (at least for now). It's only a temporary measure until Lemmy gets more powerful mod tools and then they'll refederate when they can more easily moderate the trolls and bad actors. This is one of the features of the fediverse, got an instance that's producing a large amount of trolls? Not anymore! Insta-community clean. The only people I've ran across that don't like it are normally the people that end up getting banned tbh.
Edit: For reference to the vote scores, on Beehaw this is currently sitting at 25 upvotes for me. If anybody is viewing from an instance with downvotes, that's how it appears for Beehaw users.
I do not think that anyone "likes" de-federation. In the end though people coming in from other nodes are guests in our forums. We do not have to put up with bad behavior. Moreover instances that allow their users to engage in this bad behavior take some responsibility too. They are your users after all. So if your instance gets banned look to your instances users, and also the admins and their policies that allow those users on that node. Do not under estimate the troll problem. Moderation is required and if it cannot be done effectively then other actions have to be taken like de-federation.
Then again, your coming from lemmy.ml and are not de-federated so why do you care. It is also a bit rich when lemmy.ml has not accepting subscriptions from behaw since I joined. Maybe you should complain about that too.
This is a terrible argument, in any case.
Maybe a better one is that lemmy.ml has not been accepting subscriptions for some time. It also has it's own block list in terms of federation: https://lemmy.ml/instances too. Most instances will not federate with everyone and will block some to protect their communities. It is just a fact.
As I said, I do not think it is a desirable thing in general and it is disruptive when transitioning to blocked but it is from time to time necessary. The necessity has to be jugged from the point of view of the instance making the decision and their admins. So projecting some other set of concerns onto it is kind of questionable. It is even more questionable when your instance is doing similar things and worse when users from your instance were the ones causing the issue to start with.
Nice slippery slope fallacy. Try arguing in bad faith somewhere else.
This isn't a slippery slope or bad faith comment. Sit down and be quiet.