Since this developement is just the most recent in a long conflict, we have to zoom out a bit.
The first event in this conflict I can remember was nearly a year ago when a user accused !europe@feddit.org of supporting “zionism” (meaning supporting the genocide in Gaza), which lead to feddit-org’s mods defending their mods and instance. Some minor instances defeterated feddit-org which in return lead to feddit-org defederating them.
The db0-admins proposed an instance policy update on Zionist accounts. Following this, the second major event in this conflict was the admin of dbzer0 accusing feddit-org of being zionist (pro-genocide) 2 months ago. The post contained a vote about banning 7 feddit-org-communities. The majority of db0-users agreed to banning those communities, but concern was raised against defederating feddit-org as a whole.
After that vote, feddit-org as a whole has been defederated by db0.
Recent feddit-post about this: https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40991661
tl;dr: Leftists fighting over who is the better leftist.
tl;dr: Leftists fighting over who is the better leftist.
Story as old as time. Biggest enemy of the left is the left.
I’m glad I’m on an instance that is permissive with any other instance and leaves it to me to choose if I want to block or defederate. Less drama, more power.
