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.

  • baker
    18•1 year ago

    Reddit was authoritarian and removed communities it didn’t like

    After scandalous media attention perhaps.

    I obviously don’t know how long you were on the site, but most of reddit’s worst actors lived long and healthy lives, while some interesting ones (e.g. Unidan) got zapped on easy technicalities.

      • baker
        5•1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s not to say that he didn’t violate ToS — more that a user like Violentacrez had to go down like the Hindenburg for their account to be removed while the funny trivia guy is permabanned for vote manipulation. Just saying that reddit isn’t authoritarian, they’re corporate; they hide their ugly niches and collect revenue from them until they become unprofitable.