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[โ€“] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (16 children)

But couldn't they just be defederated? Isn't that how it works?

[โ€“] cm0002@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Yea, and hex and grad of the Tankie Triad are generally pretty widely defederated from. db0 is one notable instance that doesn't and this screenshot is from .ml's side of the modlog who, should go without saying, is perfectly fine federating with the rest of the triad

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Trust me, we all hate them too. Not even for political positions anymore (eh, i've heard worse).

Personally i'd love to defederate, but i know a vocal minority on our instance like them, so we'll have to cope for now.

Someone's eventually going to initiate a vote on /0 governance to defederate (i know what i'm voting lol) but i also made this github issue if you're interested https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578

[โ€“] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

a vocal minority on our instance like them

i have some problems with them, but not defederation-worthy.

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