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The article wasn't the problem, it's more of a "A boosted B's link and C thinks B is a racist, so C defederated their instance from A's."
C seems... oversensitive and fragile, but I just tweeted (Xeeted?) that I want to watch Mitch McConnell's brain melt on livestream so I'm probably not a good judge of how to properly behave on the internet.
Oh, I understand the tactics being used. I was implying that person c was obviously stalking person a and pounced the moment they did something less than perfect.
My guess is there isn't anything of substance, so person c's sensitivity got amplified with time and obsessing over whatever is going on, leading them to overreact. But, not c has to double down if they want any chance of being taken seriously if a significant cause to defederate occurs.
This is, in zoomer speak, based.