Hahaha. Tell me you didn’t read the thread without telling me you didn’t read the thread.

I think the point touched on by @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone below is one of the best ones. Being federated with ML, like Hexbear and Lemmygrad (only the last of which we have defederated already) innately exposes our users to some of the worst the site has to offer in terms of pro-authoritarian bias.

Ask anyone who got over the technical hurdles and questions like “what’s that? Why should I use it? How do I make an account?” and started using Lemmy, but then left and stopped engaging why they did so. One of the top two reasons (the other being the amount of content) is probably about the amount of tanky bias and the poor behaviour of tankies. For example, this is one of the most recent posts on the subreddit for Lemmy wherein the same admin I was complaining about above doxed a user who disagreed with them.

If we want Lemmy to grow and be a good place for our users and prospective users, we need to, as @trk said, not tolerate the intolerance which is the default position on ML.

The admins of the instance. It’s ridiculous to pretend the behaviour of the admins of an instance shouldn’t be a serious consideration in the question of how to treat with that instance.

They being the authoritarians.

The problem is that there’s no incentive for anyone to create or use similar communities on other instances if the one on ML is currently the biggest. The more people defederate ML the better the chance that an AskLemmy or similar community can actually be successful on another instance. Somewhere that criticism of authoritarianism doesn’t get you banned.

Also, that post was always going to attract hardliners from all sides

The problem isn’t the existence of hardliners. It’s the clear ignoring of their own rules removing perfectly good comments that disagree with their line, while the admins themselves and people who agree with their view can get away with anything.

Have you messaged the admin for an explanation

The admin literally replied to me when I reported the disrespectful comments (which at the time I didn’t realise were being made by the admin) saying “Good luck with that” and then proceeding to be disrespectful directly to me. So no, I did not follow up the most recent thread by asking them for an explanation. Someone behaving in clear bad faith doesn’t warrant further good-faith engagement.

Side note: here’s a nice bit of light reading on tolerating intolerance. And not tolerating tolerance.

Right, which is exactly why they should be defederated. They don’t even follow their own rules and go out of their way to be arseholes to everyone, as long as they perceive it to be something that pushes their agenda.

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Ok but it’s an extra option for people who would like to use it. Why get angry at that?

Tell that to the admins of ml.

High school is considered primary education here. (at least by me

Ah, right. So, this terminology is actually pretty standardised and high school is secondary education, with primary school naturally being…primary education. Though there is a little ambiguity around the edges, for example:

United States: High school (usually grades 9–12 but sometimes 10–12…) is always considered secondary education; junior high school or intermediate school or middle school (6–8…or other variations) are sometimes considered secondary education.

It’s of particular note because the phrase “tertiary education” universally refers to post-school education like university or technical colleges, and it wouldn’t make sense to have tertiary education if there was no secondary.

The sub as a whole is for “daily games”, a genre that’s existed in some form for decades (such as the daily crosswords in newspapers) but really became popular online starting with Wordle a few years ago. A new puzzle in the same basic format every day.

This specific post is about a game called Connections, where you’re presented with 16 words/short phrases and have to group them into 4 groups of 4 based around a single connection. Often there will be distractor connections with 2, 3, or even 4 words that could fit into a category, but if you used that category it would be impossible to group the remaining 12 into three groups of 4. Or there may be 5 or 6 possible words in a correct category, in which case you must find which one(s) need to go in a different category in order to complete the puzzle as a whole.

There’s also Categories and Conlextions which do exactly the same thing, if you want to play more of the same game, or you don’t want to use a product by the New York Times (who publish Connections).

Reading it again I can see the sarcasm oozing from it, but in the context of the comment before which seems a more sincere love of the guy (not least because it demonstrates someone actually watched his post–Top Gear content) I thought it was worth pointing out what a horrible human being Jeremy Clarkson is.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about his Top Gear castmates. On the one hand they seem much more genuinely good people from their own actions and content outside of Top Gear & its spiritual successor. On the other they did seem more than willing to get back on board with him even after he committed assault (on top of all the other shit).

Resolution looks fine to me. But here’s an alternative:

Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a “role model” of any sort?

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primary education only though

Wait, yous don’t even have free secondary school? I know America has an infamously terrible tertiary education sector, but I thought high schools were publicly funded at least.

Star Trek: The Next Generation.