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if 9 people are fine sitting at a table with a Nazi, you have 10 nazis
Good thing there is no table involved.
both sides
Actually, if you read carefully, you will find that my arguments are against both sides, where the sides are the Stasi and McCarthyists.
That is if my argument was ideological. But it wasn’t. It was a technical and practical answer where I consider(ed) whatever ideologies supposedly involved irrelevant.
Monitoring instances and gouging their supposed collective thought, and making decisions based on that in an attempt to appease the masses, will make the job of general purpose instance admins unattainable.
It would be a very effective way for the likes of Reddit to fuck with the Fediverse, actually.
Weekly instance defederation talk loaded with emotional/psychological manipulation, moral grandstanding, and why not, some bullying.
“table with a Nazi” analogies. Linking the Paradox of tolerance wikipedia page for the 345636556th time. The lot.
This may work with instances that like their Stasi or McCarthyist wanna be agents (a.k.a. users) keeping their eyes out for baddies.
For general purpose instances, this will be a great way to make them quit. A desirable outcome for some. I’m not one of them. So, I, and hopefully others, am willing to take the hit and speak out, and state things that some admins may want to state, but don’t feel comfortable doing so publicly.
Great original retort there. Not part of “the lot” I had in mind in my previous comment at all.