CoffeeAddict

You are correct that Hexbear does not, but lemmygrad does.

Both instances brigade and troll other communities that don’t align with whatever propaganda they are parroting. Neither instance has a culture that aligns with kbin.social.

Yes. I vote for a preemptive defederation lol.

Exactly! I vote to defederate from them on our end, because otherwise they can just decide to federate themselves and brigade and troll their way through our magazines. Some Kbin magazines might not be prepared for that.

Nothing they do is in good faith, so why bother with them?

I’ve seen their brigading on lemmy communities before. They will also serial downvote anything they don’t like.

Personally, I would vote to defederate from both Hexbear and lemmygrad. Kbin is nice because it feels like the majority of people are posting, commenting, and overall discussing in good faith. It’s a nice culture. Neither of those two instances fit with it.

Right? I never quite understood who it was actually for, either. I mean, notepad makes sense, but wordpad just seemed like a worse version of MS Word.

I guess it could have been for those who needed something more sophisticated than notepad but didn’t want to spend money to get Word?

Idk, that’s the only reason I can think of right now lol.

Here is an example from today:

Artemis.camp: https://artemis.camp/m/[email protected]/t/50419/Donald-Trump-Says-He-Would-Prefer-Being-Abroad-Than-in
At the time of writing: 11 upvotes, 2 comments, 6 boosts

Kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/Neoliberal/t/325935/Donald-Trump-Says-He-Would-Prefer-Being-Abroad-Than-in
At the time of writing: 35 upvotes, 9 comments, 6 boosts

Lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/2975647
At the time of writing: 36 upvotes, 9 comments

Damn and in Austin too! I am surprised a city in Texas would be so on board with this, especially when they don't have much in the way of public transit.

But I have to ask, how long before Abbot kills it? lol

I believe so, and I think I read that Nigeria was a major holdout (not totally sure).

But now it looks like they’ve activated a standby force? It looks like things could get ugly.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/10/africa/niger-ecowas-standby-force-intl/index.html?ref=upstract.com

I made a post in the mastodon server for r/neoliberal asking if anyone can help us find them under @CoffeeAddict username. Hopefully, he will see it lol

I wish. Just looking at his whole career, it really seems like the law doesn’t apply to him. I really hope that changes with these indictments.

Anybody else would have been locked up. All he’s gotten were some very gentle slaps on the wrist.

Yeah, same. It’s uncomfortable seeing that type of stuff pop up in the feed.

I am sure he will get to it, but for the moment my solution has just been to block the users when I see them, their community/magazine and sometimes the domain.

It’s a tragedy, no doubt about it.

From my understanding, the problem has several layers. Unrest in Africa is (obviously) the main driver for the migration, but these tragedies keep happening because there is not a consensus on how to deal with it in Europe.

According to the article, Italy, Greece and Poland seem to get the brunt of migrants. Poland is curious to me because it doesn’t border the Mediterranean. Maybe someone else could elaborate on that?

However, Italy and Greece do and therefore are tasked with preventing these migrant vessels from sinking. Greece looks like it has decided to forego these responsibilities.

But, I think having Greece and Italy use their navy’s to deal with the problem is only a bandaid solution, if it could be considered a solution at all. People are dying, and the real problem is that crossing the Mediterranean is the only viable path to asylum for many people and its very dangerous.

I am not sure if the EU could orchestrate a more viable path to asylum, or if there is even the political will to do such a thing.