Some communities there are literally calling for the annihilation of Ukraine

https://programming.dev/comment/1999097

edit: Since people are either willfully or otherwose are missing my point, this is a pro-russia, pro-fascist hate group, therefore we shouldn’t give them the platform to spread their shit. this is not about me seeing their community or then causing issues accross other communities, it’s about de-platforming fascists.

      • velvetinetouch@lemmy.ml
        11·
        1 year ago

        Uh, good programmers are not necessarily good people? Think we all ought to be able to agree on that… But if you really think hexbear users are comparable to far right extremists then your politics are detestable and my credence in you also being a bad person goes way up, although you might still be worth intereacting with wrt programming topics idk

  • mark@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    So we’re gonna keep defederating instances every time a user of an instance acts crazy? Until every instance deferates from each other? This is getting absurd… and feels more and more like… high school.

  • Ategon@programming.devMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Currently the stance for this instance is defederation as a last resort so everyone can participate in the coding chats. If a community on a connected instance breaks our rules the community will be removed from the instance and things such as politics communities will be hidden from the all feed once we can get that coded in since lemmy itself isnt capable of doing it very well yet (its a feature but only through the backend and painful to do in bulk)

    A bunch of hexbear communities fall into the hidden in the all feed category so wont show up to people unless they explicitly look for it by searching and subscribing. Should be pushed out once I can dedicate time to coding it in and ill announce in this community when it has

  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The better question is why can’t you moderate yourself and block what you don’t want to see? Although with the above screenshot it’s like you’re looking for it.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    Your screenshot is of a lemmygrad users comment with only three upvotes (hexbear doesn’t have downvotes) in the hexbear “chapotraphouse” comm.

    And you’re saying that it shows programming.dev should defederate with the whole instance?

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is likely the only thread on programming.dev that will attract them. They don’t have much cause for class war here.

  • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I said it on the exploding-heads thread and I’ll say it here too: my “all” feed would be a much nicer place without hexbear showing up in it.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Because there are a lot of tankie apologists elsewhere. That or those free speech absolutists type that think deplatforming fascists and bigots is censorship and cancel culture or some such nonsense like that.

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        They have hundreds, if not thousands, of members all along a spectrum of leftist belief. Wild that they all were saying that, yet the comment only got 3 upvotes.

        With every post I stumble upon about defederating with hexbear, I just feel more and more radicalized.

        • kameecoding@programming.devOP
          12·
          1 year ago

          then you are a prime example of why de federation should happen, these are not leftists, these are misguided tankies at best, fascist shills in disguise in reality, down to the fact of them discovering this “new truth” (excellent video here btw https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g)

          these are leftists the same way Nazis were socialist, North Korea is democratic and China/Russia were communist.

          Russia is ruled by fascists, there is a reason both Orbán and the GOP are big fans of Putin.

          how can you call them leftists while they shill russian propaganda? they all but come out and straight up say that Ukraine should be left alone to lose the war and be conquered?

          • Onyxation@burggit.moe
            0·
            1 year ago

            “This is why my fascism is better than your fascism.”

            “We must silence them for the greater good.”

          • whats_a_refoogee@sh.itjust.works
            01·
            1 year ago

            Russia is ruled by fascists. how can you call them leftists while they shill russian propaganda?

            Russia is very much quickly tumbling towards USSR communism. There is massive support for return to communism from the officials and the population. People are erecting new statues for Stalin and getting popular support. Criticizing historical communist leaders is likely to get you legally persecuted.

            Why are people thinking that communist loving Russia is leftist… Gee I don’t know.

            Incoming “USSR wasn’t communism, and nothing has ever been communism”.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    As much as I think they’re at best deluded hippy kids who unashamedly gobble down Kremlin propaganda like it’s crack, as long as they’re not being a nuisance to communities hosted on your server, is there a real reason to defed?

    If they start answering “How do I control an ESCPOS receipt printer through Javascript?” with “Nuke Kyiv”, then maybe do so.

    Although I do think Lemmy should have the ability to personally block a whole server as well as just users and communities.

    • Slimy_hog@programming.dev
      11·
      1 year ago

      I do think Lemmy should have the ability to personally block a whole server as well as just users and communities.

      I long for the day.