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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[โ€“] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I might have jumped the gun on calling for defederation. We should just give them the db0 treatment: ban their admins but stay federated, the ultimate power move.

[โ€“] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I think that treatment should be the standard response to any instances with shitty anti-communist mods/admins but that still have at least some contingent of cool users. I think midwest.social fits that category. But yes, doing that is not only the funniest move, as we learned with db0, it's like getting the best of both worlds. If the general users of an instance start getting regularly abusive, especially towards more vulnerable groups, that's when it's time to consider the full defed option imo. Fortunately, I don't think we've had an issue with that on the scale of an entire instance since, what... blajah and shitjustworks?