ZombiFrancis

It's not the preferred nomenclature, please.

In that line of thinking: what does the comic say if 'Russia' is exchanged for 'North Korea'? Is the point of the comic just to flatly express that one nation state sucks in comparison? If so, that's kind of a shitty sentiment--and dare I say nationalistic.

Krasnov was also a military leader during the Russian Civil War who also collaborated with the Nazis.

He was associated with the Don region which is currently a war goal for Russia in Ukraine.

You're not wrong. It's really pumping up a degree of nationalism that is unhealthy to take for granted. If you change out 'Russia' for other countries you start see the baby's reaction relies on prejudices on politics and current events. If it was 'Mexico' or 'China' it suddenly feels a little more racist.

That's a lot of resources now wasted that were spent on training and onboarding.

I dunno, 3 makes wild accusations about implied meanings. Seems suspect.

This is more like polarity shift Antarctica where sea level stays similar to current levels. Way back in college I used melted antarctica with sea level rise for an evolutionary biology seminar. And it is much less interesting.

federating with .ml help other instances grow when people are kicked out of .ml? How does federating with them provide any benefit when people are kicked out of .ml? There's no federated 'transfer your account' option.

There doesn't seem to be as much or the same conflicts with .ml users in communities outside .ml versus .ml communities having overbearing mods that ban people. So the federation isn't so much the issue there. I much prefer the trend of people going to and making communities on instances where the powertrippers aren't tripping as opposed to calling for defederation. Federation with users across the largest instances is a good thing.

Defederating means a lot of people would have to make new accounts anyway. Grad and hexbear are niche enough that defederating is closer to banning a group of users. .ml would excise a whole lot of users who aren't even the tankies of concern.

Alright I'll bite:

This instance is already defederated from grad, which seems too eliminate the vast majority of problems as I see it. So I'd support other instance's decisions there to defederate.

Defederating .ml seems premature and unnecessary since the issues are either users who aren't actually bound by instance, or moderation practices which is not worth defederating over. I mostly think .ml isn't a problem as an instance so federating with them helps other instances grow if people get kicked out of there. Though if .ml gets reduced to a few niche communities like lemmygrad or hexbear, then yeah, defederation wouldn't be much of an issue then.

Hexbear users you know I think are funny, but they're so defederated up I know other instances may not even get a chance to do it. So that's just a freebie anyway.

The ellipses indicated I wasn't forming a beach head with the point. It's just the 'okay we will make our own place' comic in practice, which might've been an easier and more succinct thing to post.

Infinite? Nah. I just know the default state for every most online spaces is pretty mask off right wing. As an American government worker I have 90% cop brain interactions in meatspace too.

So the tankies, the few there are in a marginalized online space? Yeah, they don't worry me one bit. They're on par, if not almost refreshing, compared to any gaming lobby I have experienced for the last 30 years.

So I see what appears to be an outsized reaction to a really inconsequential group of people. The idea that one of their takes scares off a redditor or anyone else closer to the default is almost comical as a concern.