Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem" - Lemmy.zip

Dbzero Governance Vote Post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728 [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728] >Ahoy mateys! >A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org [http://feddit.org] instance. >But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org [http://feddit.org] seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. … >More context >Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441] for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8. >As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au [http://quokk.au] over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. … >Note 2: If you think feddit.org [http://feddit.org] deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead. In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation. Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances] where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org [http://fedddit.org] is now defederated i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

It’s sad to see dbzer0 slowly creeping towards authoritarianism. This is exactly the kind of reason I couoldn’t entertain making it my primary instance unfortunately.
Nah, it was decided with a vote. The majority in that server wanted Feddit blocked and that’s what came.

Ah yes because nothing authoritarian was ever implemented through a vote…

Personally, I voted against on my db0 account, the top voted comments explain pretty thoroughly why.

Authoritarian is a basically meaningless word already but “people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.

“people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.

You’re right, that would be idiotic. Good thing I didn’t define authoritarian that way, and no, it is not a meaningless word, you can (in fact) look it up in a dictionary which describes the meaning fairly well.

AUTHORITARIAN Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

'AUTHORITARIAN' definition by Dictionary.com

The linked definition doesn’t match with you calling the vote/outcome authoritarian.

Authoritarian/authoritarianisn is so widely defined that literally every country, organisation and movement fits it by necessity in class society

Authoritarian is a pejorative used by idiots to avoid grappling with the reality of one class necessarily suppressing another in class society.