As the title says, should we defederate from them? They are generally very spammy and most of Lemmy agrees that they don’t contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. At the same time they don’t break any of the rules that would cause me to defederate from them, so I thought I’d ask you, the instance users, what do you want.
Please comment what you think, this post will stay pinned for two days and afterwards we will either defederate or not.
P.S. If you ever feel like some instance would be better defederated from, do let me know! I’ll either defederate straight away if they break any of the rules, or create a post like this to let our users vote.
I moderated an online community in the past (not on Lemmy), and my experience is that every now and then a bunch of insufferable assholes will start sticking together and form a self-righteous technically-not-breaking-the-rules clique. It always gets worst and they will increasingly play the victims and push the boundaries of what is acceptable on the platform. The game they’re playing is to never give you a single, good-enough reason to boot them. But at some point people get tired, and when the straw breaks the camel’s back they will be sure to make a mockery of the reason. “Oh we just posted a meme and they banned us lololol”.
Anyway, just my 2 cents. I don’t care either way as I will probably try to not participate whenever they swarm a thread so it is the same to me. I don’t think we owe insufferable users our time and attention. I don’t even care about their politics or whatever, I would not mind discussing communism actually but most of the interactions are in bad faith.