Am I wrong in thinking this is sad as hell? Like seeing an old faded billboard with the same "your ad here!" text that's been there for ages.

Thank you. One of those dudes were over on sh.itjust.works when they defederated it, arguing that the exploding heads community was totally fine! As you can see... no, it was not: https://lemmy.world/comment/577634

You can expand the rest comment section for context but the screenshot in the link speaks for itself.

Edit: here come the downvotes! The exploding heads guys really hate that I screenshotted & exposed the cesspit they call home. Lol

No one has answered you yet, so I will. It was probably banned for these reasons:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/93563

Tldr: Exploding heads is a right-wing, Trump worshipping bitcoin bro instance, in addition to being a bastion of bigotry and transphobia.

Of course, you already know this and are probably concern trolling as you've posted similarly in the "agora" voicing your distaste for democracy.

Oh really, I'm making stuff up? Here's a screenshot from that delightful place:

Racism, LGBT paranoia, and Trump worship all in one. Gee, I wonder why all the decent instances are defederating the site.

Hopefully the exodus from Reddit will help drown out the authoritarian-worship here.

Yes, my Russian-sympathizing friends. You can certainly classify the actions of Russia and China as imperialist & bad too, and it will not detract from the imperialist & bad stuff the US or "the West" has done. Most humans can walk and chew gum at the same time, you can too!

Edit: My first downvote here! Looks like there are indeed some people who can't walk and chew gum at the same time :P

Lol thats perfect. Link for the uninitiated:

https://lemmy.world/post/694810

I'm so sorry for your lack of understanding, I'll simplify it for you.

Regarding bots, that non-issue was already addressed by [email protected] :

https://lemmy.world/comment/550578

This is a valid concern. Our procedure for voting requires that a user comment Aye/Nay. Therefore, anyone is free to view the user profile to assess whether they might be a bot. We will continue to assess whether we can better protect the decision making process from bots, but due to the small size of this forum, it would seem fairly tricky to influence the vote just yet. Rest assured that we won’t be fooled by one guy in his basement running 1,000 alts.

Also, my friend... just because fascism and right-wing rhetoric is unpopular with voters doesn't mean the voting machines are rigged.

If it truly gets under your skin that these bigoted spaces are being defederated by the nicer spaces, feel free to join a more right-wing infested instance. Just understand that the rest of the fediverse is not obliged to listen to their lunacy.

Lemmy's first inside joke, I'm so proud

Edit: Link for the uninitiated

Glad you posted this - its the epitome of malicious compliance! And a fantastic form of protest too. With Reddit admins threatening to demote mods unless they re-open subreddits, this move takes away that ammo. Additionally, after the initial boost in activity due to novelty, the sub will get stale quickly and users will think of migrating to other platforms like lemmy or kbin. I'm all for it!

Edit: This is what I'm talking about. Here is one of those Reddit refugees now!

https://lemmy.world/comment/273363

Welcome, @[email protected]!

I love it! Would definitely vote this as the new logo

Link for the uninitiated

Both are bad choices. When reddit says open /r/pics or else, you just delete /r/pics.

Hard disagree with your first sentence. As @[email protected] explained, Reddit would just force re-open it.

And as explained in my comment, this is causing Reddit users to switch over to Lemmy due to the protesting subs getting stale: https://lemmy.world/comment/289241>

Link for the uninitiated

Nah, there was another thing. Link here

Definitely a good move to defederate that cesspit

President Xi please, my people yearn for freedom!

I was with you till the last sentence. Wth dude?

Nah, friend. The ones on top want to keep us divided with petty bullshit that doesn't actually matter. Ever heard of "divide and conquer"? It's a tale as old as time. For example, you think oil conglomerates donate heavily to a certain political party because they, too, care for the sanctity of marriage, or safety of kids, or the precious unborn? Brother, they don't give a rat's ass. It's all about the money and power. They'll use whatever social issue is convenient to obtain it.

I mean look at the radio silence regarding immigration, after it was found that Biden rolling back Trump-era policy actually reduced illegal immigration. That carrot doesn't work anymore, so now they've got other social issues (I guess lgbt/trans panic is the hot thing nowadays) to get you riled up.

We're on this planet together and we should always watch out for each other - and be vigilant against those who seek to divide us. Peace.

For real though, anyone know how that came to be?

Had us in the first have not gonna lie. Back to reddit with thee, infidel!

Hey, why not repost it on this site?

Huzzah! I had only just voted earlier today in the sync subreddit for a lemmy app and already @[email protected] is on the case. You rock dude!