Meta is a corporation with a really horrible track record

and even if they didn't, it's still a corporation; it only cares for profit

I have very negative opinions on them joining

exactly what I was trying to say

rationally reasoning with bigots rarely leads to bigots abandoning their bigotry; oftentimes it leads to them latching onto something else as an excuse or rationalization for their bigotry, outright violence, or doubling down out of spite

you

you get it

all of this "marketplace of ideas" bullshit predicates on the alt-right and fascists cooperating and playing fair, when they historically have always taken advantage of any chance they're given and then mocking those who wanted to give them a chance

like it's 2023, I'd hoped that we'd have realized why giving the alt-right and fascists a seat at the table never fucking works out for anyone other than the alt-right and fascists

nobody is cut off, holy shit

this is not as big of a deal as you're making it

people can make new accounts on freer instances in seconds

the moon buggy on camera was a wooden replica but to get it on site (the moon), they had to build an actual moon lander and everything

not every place in the internet is America

on top of that, they were getting some pretty heinous abuse from a couple of users on the open-registration instances

fucking exactly lmao

people from other instances seem to have felt entitled to Beehaw's communities and are acting like something was stolen from them when they'd never owned it to begin with

they're literally doing that right now

are they supposed to just sit and let trolls keep coming in while they do it????

I see, you see Lemmy as being one big community, rather than separate communities that can interact with each other

so you see defederating as like locking away a part of the community, rather than a community deciding to lock up for a bit