I mean they could add a diff thing, like how AUR helpers do it. It’s not much, but it’s something.

Which is why the easiest thing to do is just have the discussions. If someone wants to act as if they’re just a regular person bringing up crime statistics about black people or something, just engage in good faith and present your counter. If they’re genuine, you’ve provided a genuine response, if they’re not, you’re still winning because their goal is to either prove you can’t ask certain questions or that people are hiding from the truth. Also, you automatically get an opportunity to influence any 3rd parties simply reading the exchange.

Create a set of rules, hold people to them, and enforce them fairly and impartially. Bans and defederation should not be for people whose opinions you don’t like - it should be reserved for people who cannot communicate in any meaningful / respectful way. Spammers, and trolls basically.

Idk, on the one hand I could see the argument against organizations dodging the Red Hat fees by choosing free downstream, but then again, like, everything that RHEL does was always available? The reason you’d pay is for the support you’d get from them?

To be honest I never really understood why you’d specifically want something like CentOS over say, Debian - I mean, outside of I guess, .rpm packaging?

Yeah except it’s more like a room full of thousands of normal people and you saw two Nazis playing with each others’ dicks in the back so you started calling the room a room full of Nazis.

Bruh, is the implication here that anyone who is against defederation is pro T_D or pro Nazi?

Literally where? I’ve been browsing fairly regularly for at least the last week or so and haven’t seen anything even slightly Nazi-ish.

Also the internet is not a physical space, the way the work is not the same.

Overtaken? Where? I’m subscribed to like the most popular subs in this instance and I haven’t seen anything even slightly related to any of this shit at all.

Lmao this is the perfect reason for why de federation should be a last resort. Imagine being led around by the nose by random trolls with 10 minutes worth of effort.

Hard disagree. If people are following the rules, they should be allowed to exist.

Then you’ll always be led around by the nose by people you don’t like. Block, move on. Be an adult. Other people don’t need to decide on what everyone else can see. If you don’t want to see it, you won’t.