Minimizing propaganda spoonfed from the Russian aggressor state is pretty damn good reason.

It’s not projection, it’s personal experience.

The messaging is clearly Russian state controlled, this person is either being fed talking points or, more likely, is an idiot who has bought into the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. In any event, propaganda replies on widespread communication to the masses to influence with its falsehoods, and we should be combating that as an instance by isolating it as much as possible to keep it from spreading.

If you don’t see a problem with allowing open channels for Russian propaganda, I can’t make it any clearer to you.

What do you mean? This is the kind of Russian propaganda we should be isolating, and its spread and acceptance on lemmy.ml should be reason enough to defederate.

Comments and posts expressing sentiments like this seem to have quite a strong showing there.

I called out assholes spreading Russian propaganda, those people don’t deserve politeness. They’re shilling for a tyrannical regime on a war of conquest against an innocent nation, fuck the lot of them.

Much appreciated, thanks for the info!

Thanks, I was unaware of that community’s existence, I thought this was the main one for instance related posts.

It’s hardly a non-issue, they’re peddling bile fed to them by the Russian state, it has no place here. Let the communities that are decent migrate somewhere else, we should be doing our part to isolate their rhetoric.

Thanks, I was unaware of that community’s existence, I thought this was the main one for instance related posts.

The fact that these instances are full of tankies and Russian apologists isn’t a whim, it’s valid reason for defederating. Their bullshit doesn’t belong here.

Yes, I really think so. That’s why I said so.

Those people are welcome to leave that instance and come to a decent one and I won’t have a problem with them. The instance itself is infested with them though.

We should have stronger standards for federation that just not hosting child porn. Obviously that should be prevented from coming in, but we can do better than just keeping the bar that low.

We should defederate because they’re full of tankies and Russian mouthpieces, and that people of this instance shouldn’t be subjected to that kind of bullshit.

News and politics are a huge part of the conversation though, and lemmy.ml is infested.

Yeah, soon as I can, I fully intend to.

Once I have the ability, I fully intend to. It doesn’t change the point that they’re extremists and their bullshit shouldn’t be associated with decent instances. Sh.itjust.works should still defederate them.

Not in my experience, it seems to be a haven for tankies and Russia apologists.