• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t this something that the fediverse was explicitly designed to support?
    We’re making fun of them for making use of one of the foundational features of the platform?

    If they don’t like it there, they can move again. And again. Or host their own instance.

    Idk what this creepy vicarious butthurt is about, or why it has become so popular.

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        4 months ago

        One study estimated 1% of cat owners feed their cat a vegan diet. Why do you think that might be? Are they all extremist animal abusers? Or is it possible you had an assumption that turned out to be wrong and now don’t know how to reconcile?

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        4 months ago

        If they choose to migrate to another instance, it will likely be a more extremist instance with poor moderation that has been significantly defederated.

        In theory this is how it should work, but in practice the toxic people tend to move to general purpose more laissez-faire places like .world or .ml, which makes de-federating and cutting off 30% of all users a difficult decision for anyone trying to have a community.

        The answer is less centralization, but that can’t be forced. beehaw.org (for example) made the decision to cut off .world and they are better for it. But they are a large-ish instance in their own right.