A bit over a month ago, a user posted in !main@sh.itjust.works to propose defederating from maga.place. That post was followed by a discussion in !agora@sh.itjust.works a week ago, which seems to have gained some traction. In response, we’re going to hold a vote on the matter. Voting will be open for one week, through Friday, November 7.

The Agora discussion post is here:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/48420886

Only sh.itjust.works accounts created prior to today (October 31) may cast a vote.

Vote by commenting either yes/aye/oui or nay/no/non.

Any further discussion should happen in the Agora post linked above.

Additional Context/Discussions

Similar discussion at lemmy.ca: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46502305

Other fediverse instances are also defederating: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48111431

The instance’s page at Fediseer: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/maga.place

VOTE RESULT

yes/aye/oui: 363
nay/no/non: 43

  • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 days ago

    i think i wasn’t clear enough in my previous comment. My comment was about the “Well yeah, the admins can ban a user if they feel like it. It’s literally their website.” mentality.

    Admins too should adhere to community rules and they shouldn’t be able to ban users because “they feel like it”.

    Whole MAGA approach to politics is “we’re doing it because we feel like it.” No coherence, no intelligible reasons, no accountability. Just a “feel like it”.

    i’m not criticising admins either. This post shows that they don’t act on a “feel like it” and they’re polling the user base.

    i’'ve been online long enough to know that communities/sites belong to users even when servers and domains belong to a person. Every time an “owner” of a community website started to act like users are tolerated guests on their servers, the whole community degenerated and dried up.

    and that’s why i’m hopeful about fediverse.

    cc @Zeppo@sh.itjust.works