Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it.

What fucking hate speech, you weasly, lying shitlib. Your kind cheers on Russian deaths, calling them “orcs”, then you have the audacity to accuse us of hate speech? Go on, make more orientalist posts about China, and then come back and lecture us on hate speech.

The only “hate speech” I have is the hate for your dogshit, genocidal politics.

Our instance explicitly disallows and bans bigotry, and he’s going around posting this shit

Edit: And thinking about it more, the admins are basically agreeing going “fuck the devs we would switch off if we could”, after everything the devs did to placate them, offering to pay for server hosting, putting them and not us on the reccomended server list, explicitly pinning posts asking people to go else where, and they’re still shitting on them for “muh evil tankies!!!”. The devs should have never listened to these whining liberals, and I think should maybe defederate from beehaw themselves like holy fuck you can’t trust liberals for anything

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      I just meant it was an aggressive tone, which might put off new members. Also, I might have equated “hate speech” with speech in which you show hate for something (ex, an admin team). Which is clearly wrong looking back, but I won’t edit it now.

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        Do as you will, I just suggest not conflating the two in the future. I think if anything communicating a passionate disdain for people like Beehaw’s lying admins (along with Democrats, Republicans, Blairites, etc) would be a positive for new user interest.

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          I just suggest not conflating the two in the future.

          Ye, I’ll try. It was an honest mistake.

          I think if anything communicating a passionate disdain for people like Beehaw’s lying admins […] would be a positive for new user interest.

          I’d have to read more about the history between Beehaw’s admin and this Lemmy instance. I won’t blindly passionately disdain them, but clearly there is some history here which I’m not aware of, so if anything, I’ll think twice before “both-siding” this.

          (along with Democrats, Republicans, Blairites, etc)

          We’re on the same page here. ;)