i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, don't mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else
in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and that--the number of people actually using the language to Do Things--is imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language
so please complain about your languages' shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them
when those users find out a instance largely made up of queer folk defederated with their instance don’t you think they’d be more likely to make an account on another instance and bring the hate here?
I can't think why that would be the case. Bigots gonna bigot. I think they're likely to harass queer people because we exist, and anything that makes that harder (e.g. defederating instances that protect them) is good actually.
"Don't feed the trolls" never really worked, it just meant they continued to exist without opposition.
unless the admin is supportive of that behavior it would make more sense to give them a chance to deal with that on their own
I disagree. Harmful, bigoted content is already being posted there. Defederating now protects this community from being exposed to it.
If the admin is responsive and deals with the issue, we can always federate with them at that point.
My issue is not with the individuals portrayed, but with the community, the framing, and the instance's administration. My understanding is that the blahaj admins have similar issues.
But sure, have fun arguing with the strawman you've constructed.
The point of federated instances is that they can make their own decisions around federation, moderation, administration, etc.
This post is not intended for negotiating and arguing about this decision. This is the admins of this instance letting members know of a decision they've made. If you're a member here, cool, this affects you. It's not going to change, though, so if you don't like it there's plenty of other instances that will continue to federate with lemmynsfw.
If you're not a member, this doesn't affect you, and your opinion is literally just noise here. Feel free to start a post decrying the prudish, authoritarian stance of the blahaj admins and espousing your need to allow CSAM adjacent material literally anywhere else.
where doing it man
were MAKING THIS HAPEN