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ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Cricket@lemmy.zip 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Going by your figure, a few dozen users out of nearly 2,500 combined monthly active users behaved badly. It seems to me that defederating was/is an overreaction when user-level blocks and community-level bans exist.

[โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You weren't around for it, but it was bad -- you couldn't avoid them and user level instance blocking wasn't a thing yet. Blocking users didn't work because they were constantly making alts, including on other instances.

Calls were made for instances hosting them to ban those users: most did, some refused to or couldn't. Multiple instances were mass defederated from but lemmygrad and hexbear were the big two.