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As an admin with the same responsibilities, I find it questionable that you've also decided not to give any proof of your claims. Could you please demonstrate some? Otherwise, we (the admins of lemy.lol) will unfortunately have to defederate from Startrek.website in response. There have been a number of reports of the behavior surrounding the administration of this instance to call into question this specific action. This seemingly made directly after an illegal DDOS attack was perpetuated on dbzer0 is... strange. It's more than enough for us at our instance to drop you as well.

We're not entirely comfortable with admins using their instances as a fiefdom. If you want to defederate, I can understand the decision. It is one that I've had to consider numerous times. But to paint an entire instance (the third largest, from what I'm aware) as allowing content that you're refusing to provide evidence for? It's questionable. This made only further by the fact that Corgana and SysAdmin have been demonstrated by others to be the same user in the past as well as the... quite numerous claims of abuse from the admins of this instance. Hell, I've currently got access to screenshots of the admins of this instance requesting another instance to ban a user simply for reporting on the publicly available modlog on YePowerTrippingBastards.

As far as I'm aware, you also haven't taken any public stance on this up until this point. "Final Straw?" What were the first ones? This post leaves far more questions than it does answers. I'd recommend deleting this now and making either a sensible response worthy of an admin or to just drop this entire situation.

db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people

Give some direct examples.

Hello, i understand I'm on a different instance and this doesn't directly affect me, however, for the greater health of the fediverse i am concerned that i don't see any specific evidence?

I understand you're claiming you have your own prime directive of sorts but i don't think Section 31 vibes are healthy when it comes to defederation. You're welcome to disagree- it's your server and all but im just saying outside looking in, id be concerned any time a server is defederating without specific evidence. My server has defederated servers before and i know exactly why because my server admins are very open and tell us why.

How would you expect the denizens of Deep Space Nine to react if suddenly starfleet's alliance with bajor was ended and no bajorans are allowed in the station with no specific rationale given?

And while you may say it doesn't affect me directly, that would mean there are less bajorans in these halls. When i visit your communities it will be a bajoran-free zone. That does affect me indirectly because while i can still participate here, it means there are less people to engage in nerdy space talk.

I hope you reconsider sharing more info. Thanks for your time and effort managing your server.

This feels petty

Why? What does "discussions about hurting people" actually mean? Even starship captains engage in such discussions at times.

I'm on a different instance, so this doesn't directly affect me.

With this in mind this action and the discussion raise many questions. Defederation is a broad and extreme measure, affecting many users and the structure of the fediverse as a whole. When larger instances are involved this is of interest to everyone.

The thin explanation isn't satisfying anyone's curiosity and let's the decision look questionable at best.

I'm no fan of db0, but I am for open discourse. Just going against the "values" doesn't feel like a good reason for an instance ban. This should be explained in more detail with examples.

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