If you are bigger than us (by a factor of 100?) and we can't really affect you much, is the fear of substantial downvote brigading perhaps a bit unnecessary?
Don't feel like I'm accusing you of brigading, you seem like the type of person who'd rather have a discussion than just anonymously downvote.
If anything, based on your previous statement about seeking out a different community to rile them up, trolling would be more correct.
Community blocking was a recent addition, instance blocking for users is coming. I don't think the massive growth of instances could be expected so I understand the prioritisation.
If you'd care to check my comment history, maybe you can see your own prejudice for yourself.
I think your standards for what you call fascism is dangerously misguided, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't recognise a totalitarian society if it snuck up on you.
Or perhaps you just didn't see those who don't bother engaging in conflict?
I fully understand why you don't expect to find content there in the future, but is that a good argument to deny access to those who already have?
Exploding heads have gotten subscribers from here as well. There's an extensive backlog of topics some people find quite important - even if others don't.
Exploding Heads have between 40-60 active users, you probably noticed two posters you find disagreeable.
Have you considered blocking the users or communities you find offensive?
What can I say? If people can't accept that other people might have different opinions and worldview, it's not people I think I'd miss the opportunity to interact with. So I don't really lament those who block my home instance.
To address your surprise; it seems that the majority of new people coming to the Lemmyverse are reasonable and thinking people.
I don't find this any more dramatic than sh.itjust.works blocking lemmygrad.ml lol
Well, how about this:
You're dealing with people that left reddit because the moderation wasn't strong enough. By default, "regular stuff" isn't filtered enough for them. So when you people come here with your regular stuff and they don't have the manpower to filter through it, they decided to shut the gates. For now.
To be honest, I'm glad we're on a platform where the default is "I don't want to hear that so I'll ignore you" instead of "I don't want to hear that so I'll try to silence you".
First time being told you're horrible because you're not like "them" or get behind "it"?
Users can block whole communities just like blocking individuals, I hope people will consider doing that before advocating complete defederation if possible.
Disclosure, sh.itjust.works isn't my home server but we're obviously federated.
Your continuous misrepresentation of Exploding Heads is depressing. Burning hatred for redditors? Where do most of the anti-reddit posts on Exploding Heads originate from? Mostly from the new instances. You say dark corners of the internet, but we're digital neighbors.
If you check the timestamps on that thread you linked you'll see the non-EH people attached themselves to my comment from god knows where. It was unwanted, unsolicited, I've never seen them before and they used it as an example to show how a lemmy thread works. I blocked most of them, that's why you see my engagement disappear.
That's the example you use.
I was here years before you guys. I've seen the lemmyverse struggle. I have advocated so hard for openness, inclusiveness and communication through interconnectivity - all the while saying that people should block what they don't like or find offensive.
I find this whole thread symbolic of the culture you all on average have brought with you. Prejudice, misrepresentation, moral reprisals... I had it enough conflict, I know Exploding Heads won't block you and I know I can't be bothered to individually block thousands and thousands of users accusing me of the most horrible things, like being a Nazi.
At least you guys won't have to block two known prolific shitposters maybe having opinions other than yourselves, mostly in a space you'd have to seek out.
By being on the sh.itjust.works you are personally as responsible for this as the average exploding-head user is responsible for a few of our idiots posting on the internet. I'm leaving lemmy until full instance block is available for individual users so I won't ever have to interact with the type of average user I've seen on sh.itjust.works. Or at least in this thread.
You all drove me away from this platform. At least I have the decency not to seriously argue that you all should be disconnected from other instances.