All:

As the mod for this community I just wanted to drop this note:

A community purportedly a clone of an overtly political, fascistic, misogynistic, and trolling subreddit was set up on this instance and, as a result, there has been discussion in the greater fediverse to defederate sh.itjust.works.

When I am a net control station, as when I’m operating any radio, I do not discuss politics and follow good amateur practice. When I was a kid I was taught that the hobby was to facilitate emergency communications, enhance technical progress, and promote international goodwill. I’m firmly of the opinion politics messes up that last point, in particular.

While, I don’t want our hobby affiliated with hateful and violent content, I also want discussion to reach as broad an audience as possible. To that end, defederation would be unacceptable. Should sh.itjust.works be defederated I will be terminating my account and moving elsewhere. Should someone else choose to be a mod, I’ll leave it up to you to decide but I will not be sticking around and will either delete this community (if possible), set up another amateur_radio community, or join an already existing one.

I appreciate you understanding and consideration.

  • AG7LR
    543·
    1 year ago

    If everyone starts defederating instances just because there is a community they don’t like, then eventually, every instance will be isolated.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      241·
      1 year ago

      Yup, there’s plenty I don’t like on lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, but I don’t raise a fuss, I just don’t sub to those communities.

      I don’t get why everyone is being so dramatic. In this case, it was one user trolling. Just report, block, and move on. It’ll happen again, we don’t need to jump to defederation every time someone decides to troll…

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        122·
        1 year ago

        It’s both amusing and frightening how just one or two users could cause this much discussion and controversy across instances.

        Can’t help but feel like we gave them exactly what they wanted.

        • sbv@sh.itjust.works
          82·
          1 year ago

          Exactly. The community in question is a couple of trolls. This is the drama they wanted.

          • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
            112·
            1 year ago

            Not only that, a couple of trolls that were banned and their community deleted.

            It’s insane to me that there’s so much drama and craziness over a community that’s already been removed.

            • Dirk Darkly@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              1 year ago

              I think people just like being outraged. Makes you feel like you’re standing up and solving a problem without actually doing anything. Kinda like how talking about a goal can give you a sense of accomplishment without achieving it.