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I don’t think that’s been the reason why any instance has gone down though.

Kaplan has come out and said so in this thread, denying being a zionist. The problem is from his perspective here are two things:

1. People like Luminous just won’t believe him anyway. They tend to attribute zionist to a lot of people.

2. Kaplan doesn’t like any kind of rhetoric like that, full stop.

Taiwan doesn’t have the military power to take over mainland China, but they certainly want to.

Based on what do you claim this?

You cannot support a Zionist and not be a Zionist yourself.

Supporting Ukraine defending themselves against Russia has nothing to do with Israel.

To be clear, whilst it was announced in the matrix channel first - if I wanted to quietly defederate an instance, I wouldn’t blurt it out to a group chat comprised of a bunch of other instance owners and admins, including admins of the parent instances of anarchist.nexus who would likely get upset about it.

No idea - it was introduced by the less overtly fascistic of the two parties alternating in government, so… D:

Labour has always been authoritarian and were cheering along OSA all the way when the Conservatives introduced it - Nadine Dorries heavily involved before her bizarre defection to Reform. Something they don’t get called out for enough.

If you are on lemmy.world, you already couldn’t from before this decision. Lemmy.world also has hexbear, and lemmygrad defederated (as do many others). Anarchist.nexus itself is a pretty small instance with only like 12 comms and a small userbase if that contextualises anything here.

Not really.

At the same time, lemmy.zip is being overcautious because I doubt Ofcom know what lemmy is.

What about anti-Taiwan imperialism in China? Because Taiwan claims all of China and the 7 dotted line.

Taiwan has to maintain these heritage claims because repudiating them would effectively be de facto repudiating the ‘one-china’ agreement and equivalent to declaring independence, which China would take as a casus belli. It’s a farce. No-one, Taiwan included, genuinely believes that they can get any of that land, nor that it would be desirable to pursue it.

You cannot be against Zionism and support Ukraine at the same time.

This is silly. So you assume every single person who supports Ukraine defending themselves against Russia is automatically pro-Israel?

No. That user chooses to use that instead of “th”.

My point here is that they won’t be able to stop people with ‘unverified’ OS accessing the internet.

I’m not sure what you are disagreeing with. That’s generally what I said. If you use a non-compliant OS, your experience will be “age-gated”.

There will just be OS and OS forks that mimic other OS to ‘trick’ websites into thinking they’re verified.

Many of whom won’t be based in the USA.

You want a “papers please” internet and technology sphere, and you’re calling for this on a federated platform heavily populated by people who want to get away from all of that. What sort of response do you expect?

There will always be sites that don’t care and won’t comply with any OS level restrictions in the first place. You will never solve this.

Also, in the USA - there’s no suggestions floating around for a 16 or under age ban on accessing social media, moreover, I’m not sure if that specifically is even constitutional.

What should Lemmy hosts have to do, out of interest?

It was overall, less active than the Fediverse.

I think you can reasonably blame the lack of features here, honestly. I’m not saying if they had them they would have challenged Reddit, but they’d have been much more active. Community moderators almost certainly lost interest when they realised they had no real control over their community, and the longer the time elapsed with no tools to do so - the more drifted away leaving abandoned communities where AI and bots and trolls move in - compounding it even further.

They also, on day 1 of their community launch, allowed day 1 old accounts to make communities. Even if each account could only moderate 2 communities, that wasn’t smart at all.

A Reddit-styled site where AI handles community moderator decisions isn’t reddit. Communities aren’t communities, they’re just hashtags.

Indeed, but zero mod tools other than “delete post” 2 months in was genuinely laughable. To be frank, it should’ve launched with proper moderation: delete posts, ban users, sticky posts, filters for post-types etc. This is standard stuff that users shouldn’t even have to haggle for.

If they gave community moderators proper tools to help them here and put up walls - they could’ve mitigated a lot of this.

Lemmy/Piefed is far more resistant to bad actor community capture by a capricious moderator. Instance admins are usually far closer to the day-to-day operations and thus have their pulse on their communities in a way that reddit admins do not. Secondly, the federative nature of it means that any community can be replicated elsewhere.

Fair enough.