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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Please pray for those of us who mod political communities that Hexbear federates with πŸ™

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

Get them to ban your account. Then their users will not be able to see your posts or comments, to reply to. Ironically, the best gift they gave me.

EDIT: Goddamnit! They unbanned me just now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I do have to ask, if the admins here are banned from Hexbear, why are we (dbzer0) federated with them?

Not an attempt at a gotcha, I'm just curious why we are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because I'm not trying to be a BDFL. If people want to defed from hexbear, they can ask for a defed vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You are one whether you want it or not though? You can’t just ask everybody what instance decision to take at every step?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's an Anarchist instance, they try to be as democratic and community driven as possible. Actually this one here is very similar to that, we have [email protected] where people can have discussions about things like that and mods may post a vote as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

dbzer0 is an anarchist instance. They try to avoid any heavy-handed stuff (like defederation) unless the community specifically asks for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course not, but I work within mandates and can be recalled at any time, which is not how dictators for life work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How can you be recalled and keep instance functioning? Who elects another instance overseer and is it fair process?

If you really wanted it to be fair then you would have division of power: 1. Intern technician 2. Press 3. Judiciary system. And last but not least Elected overseer -> you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I can be recalled as an admin, but I remain as a sysadmin. I just took a pledge to respect that vote amd ensure the other admins do so as well. The admins select new admins. The community can recall them at any time as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
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