hexbear.net comically loses its domain name
cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/1077711
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Edit edit: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
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This is amusing, but one guy from the crosspost raised a valid problem:
If the hexbear domain fully dies, then all the idiots kept in containment by defederation will start jumping ship to other instances, and start causing trouble for users and moderators.
I have a more optimistic outlook. If they get spread out there's a higher chance of them getting out of their echo chamber and becoming a normal person. And let's be real, the worst of them will go into Lemmygrad to continue their circlejerk and thus won't bother the wider fediverse. And the worst of them probably already have alts on other instances where they stir up shit.
all the idiots kept in containment by defederation will start jumping ship to other instances, and start causing trouble for users and moderators
Many of them already do that with alt accounts, which would explain the considerable number of downvotes here.
So the tankie idiots join the bigger pool of non-tankie idiots. How will we ever survive…
Right. I don't mind people wearing certain red hats. It lets me know right up front what to expect. Reddit had the same dilemma once upon a time where specific subs were banned, and that just forced the roaches to hide in unknown areas where once you knew exactly where to find them all.
In my experience these "containment" boards/servers/sections tend not to work.
Long term it basically just creates a place that attracts those you don't want, and becomes place for those ideologies to spread. Then it either gets bad enough they take over (you know the site) or they break off wholesale and form a new community dedicated to those worst impulses (pyrrhic victory at best).
The best policy is to actively moderate, and in the case of the fediverse, defederate, those groups and those that give them shelter.
Meh, they're just going to flood over into grad and .ml where they'll be welcomed with open arms.
Then all those ".ml's not that bad, they're kinda nice" folks will see that .ml mask drop and then finally .world will defed from the last of the Tankie Triad Dyad
I'll take it. It's easy enough to tag people when I see them unironically spewing russian propaganda or bringing up American atrocities to justify Chinese ones.
