Dbzero Governance Vote Post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728

Ahoy mateys!

A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. …

More context

Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. …

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead.

In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation.

Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org is now defederated

i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    14 hours ago

    The modern left-right discourse is just so confusing to me.

    I’ve seen authoritarians, supporters of war crimes, and support for terrorism and cruelty, all claimed as leftist positions. I can’t reconcile them with what I thought left-wing values were about.

    I really think we need something with more dimensions to be popularized. The left-right system is just so loaded at this point. I personally can’t identify with either side at all.

    • Riverside@reddthat.com
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      12 hours ago

      Your problem is that you’re an idealist and you think ideas can be translated into practice just by having the correct ideas. Reality is not like that, fascists will play dirty and capitalists will play dirty and you can’t win at their own game.

    • OpenStars@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      (Alt-)“Left” != Left, and in fact shares far more in common with Right (aka: fascism).

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    • gigachad@piefed.social
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, I absolutely agree. I guess this is one of the reasons these “inter left” discussions are so exhausting.