Update
Dev is also upset at people who did not like their previous post and continues to insult everyone on the fediverse who does not a reddit like experience to attract investors (ie what the dev calls normies). As well as being completely unapologetic while also still attacking trans friendly instances by calling them a box of matches.
https://lemmy.world/post/49887929
You all have made it quite clear that you don’t want an explanation, or even a mea culpla, or to even try to understand the very real problem I’m trying to address for people who want a nicer place in the thrediverse.
You just want a punching bag.
Maybe when the DM harassment and death threats stop and someone wants to come in with a specific good faith question instead of a shotgun to my face, we’ll talk. Until then, fuck off.
Warmest regards,
Pat
But here’s an explainer for the communities:
I’ve already addressed users and such in the previous post, but I will cover communities here.
In short, think of those communities as a box of matches. In the right hands they’re perfectly safe and useful.
In the hands of a petulant child or batshit crazy adult, they’re dangerous and highly flammable.
Given that the average level of maturity of the loudest people here falls somewhere between “petulant child” and “batshit crazy adult”, giving them a box of matches is a very. bad. idea.
Some of those communities are also completely unmoderated.
When I ran vegan theory club instance I said something he didn’t like and he want ballistic on me calling me out for being anti-American and “extremist” while the country he lives in was preparing to bomb the country where I’m from. He then went on to the fediseer and censured my instance because if he doesn’t like something it is a problem. This is an actual problem with the fediverse, the “call outs” and harassment communities that pick out people for wrong think.
“Extremism” only means to oppose the status quo.
These people are actual extremists for liberalism. Any violence they employ is fine because it preserves the status quo, thus fighting the “extremism” of people suggesting that violence with a much smaller scope and scale should be employed to overthrow their hegemony.
Like tankie, the use of the word “extremism” only exists to slander those who dare oppose the status quo in any meaningful way.