I can see no fair reason to refuse it!

it’s totalitarianism vs freedom to have intelligent discourse

bigotry isn’t “intelligent discourse”, and calling out bigots for their bigotry isn’t “totalitarianism."

This is referred to as the Streisand Paradox, wherein one blames Barbra Streisand for something, thereby triggering the Streisand Effect. 

This is different, of course, than mentioning Streisand and Cloony together, which produces The Perfect Streistorm.

Or go insane trying!

A Siberian Gulag will do that

lmao

You don’t. You are aware you can block communities?

and you can just join hexbear if you want to play with the bullies and trolls. no need to force them on everyone else. you don’t and never had freedom of speech here. to claim you did is a lie.

your argument is fallacious and hypocritical. if you don’t like being called out for you fallacies and hypocrisy, stop making fallacious an hypocritical arguments.

Why should everyone sign up the multiple accounts because your want to impose your views on others?

right back at ya

Why would I sign up to a community I don’t agree with? I’m just not that a snowflake and think freedom of speech is important.

it’s been my experience that those who cry for freedom of speech the loudest are those who just want to use it to harm others without consequence.

nobody should be made to suffer trolls just because you can’t cope with an inconvenience. your argument is bad-faith and hypocritical on its face.

you’re still very free to join hexbear

got stuck in a sand trap on the back nine

as a lemmy.world user, I can’t tell you all enough about how much our quality of life has improved since we defederated form hexbear.net. far less moderation is necessary and general browsing is far more pleasant not having to constantly be bombarded by those awful stickers and brigades of trolls with their endless baiting and attacks.

why should users and mods be constantly burdened day I and day out with users from an instance whose entire ethos is that of shitposting trolls? if lemm.ee is supposed to be a nice place, why would you intentionally let in a group of people you know have zero intention of comporting to your expected code of conduct and have a well-established pattern of behavior that’s hostile, combative, and toxic towards a large portion of your user base?

yes, defederation is a last-resort option, but what other choices do you have when current user and mod options simply aren’t sufficient? defederation isn’t permanent, and if, by some miracle, hexbear users suddenly become well-behaved, lemm.ee can always re-federate with them. if they weren’t the titanic problem they genuinely are, several other instances wouldn’t also be currently discussing defederation in addition to those which already have.

I’m reminded of an old post I once saw about a bartender who kicks out any Nazi who enters his bar, even if they’re well-mannered and isn’t bothering other patrons. Even though they may be polite and bothering nobody, eventually, they come back with a friend, then another, then then 10 others, and then BOOM, you’e a Nazi bar.

Don’t make lemm.ee a toxic, hostile, troll-filled hexbear bar. keep it nice. keep it safe. ❤️

edit: not even a day later, and I get this pvt message from a lemm.ee user warning me of this scary-ass comment they got with a stalking/death threat they received from a hexbear troll, with a list of users they feel slighted them and other hexbear users.

HEXBEAR USERS ARE DANGEROUS. HEXBEAR USERS ARE TERRORISTS.

names blurred for safety

You know Plex is trying to become a streaming platform, right?

no they’re not. they’ve had streaming options for many years. you can also just turn it off. it’s very easy.

also… so what? they offer some streaming content alongside their media managements capabilities. people just like you have been crying foul over that for a solid decade, claiming that Something Bad™ would happen. Guess what? It hasn’t.

From someone who’s spent around 20 years with xbmc/Kodi. Even better, it’s free.

they’re free because they’re far inferior. they lack many features Plex has which my users and I use constantly. Same with Jellyfin… none of the alternatives can do all of what Plex does. not to mention that I strongly dislike the interfaces of the alternatives. they’re, at best, undercooked, unrefined. If they work for you, fine, but they don’t work for me.

Finally, Plex is also free. There is a premium tier that’s paid which includes a few premium features, but, as a Kodi/Emby user, it’s nothing you haven’t already been living without. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

18 years with Plex, and I have zero regrets. I always knew this age of streaming would sour sooner or later. I’ll admit, the good times lasted longer than I expected.

Original article from Fox News, of course.

sigh…. and I was having such a nice day…

that is fucking terrifying.

But invoking the spectre of “Sharia law” is just as vague as referring to “US law”.

right, because Sharia Law and US Law are exactly the same thing…

at least it would be a cool story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯