Fediverse

1. That's not true. A lot of users have spoken out against defederation. Just look at the top comments here. There is no way you can speak of a “consensus” as the admin of dbzer0 claims.

2. It's completely ridiculous to accuse feddit.org of being Zionist because particularly militant anti-Zionist forms (“Death to Israel”) are not allowed there. This line of argument is inconclusive and makes the classic conversion fallacy. But more importantly, most people on feddit.org are very critical of Israel. For example, I never read that anyone seriously denies that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Even if it did happen, it would be criticized immediately. They probably just don't do so with the radicalism that is represented on dbzer0. Instead of concluding that there is at least a large overlap here, that the people on feddit.org are not only not allies, but in fact enemies (“fascists”), is so ridiculous that I can hardly believe that this is being advocated by adults. Yes, there have always been these stupid left-wing purity contests. But I think this reaches a new level of stupidity here.

I can't stand this anymore. There are actual fascists who want to destroy both the users of feddit.org and dbzer0. They won't care how purely anti-Zionist the person in question is. They'll hang us all equally if they get the chance. But instead of uniting, we are creating new hostilities between us.

A handful of examples shown and then a public vote for defederation seems wild and loose to me.

The collateral damage from this is a mix of unwanted dreams (see this post) and a whole bunch of users cut off from another that did nothing wrong.

Lemmy is still young and small. These spats only hurt it's community and image.

Supporting their freedom to speak is in effect the same as supporting the ideology.

It's a shame most people on the internet don't recognize how rhetoric like this causes more harm than good.

"If you don't support me in censoring my enemies, then you're just as bad as they are."