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And if you want to exist in a bubble. Then by all means please do. But don’t admonish other people for not doing so. Ignoring politics and being ignorant of politics is in large part how so many of the problems we have today were created. People left alone at the levers of power who should never have had any business. All because people were content and ignorant.

Just wanted to chime in that I agree with this, and frankly that's why I value keeping an eye on what the narrative that both sides have been operating by. I don't see how any of the problems we face are served by selective ignorance.

Hell lemmygrad and hexbear weren’t banned because of their politics. They were banned because of their behavior. Anyone who behaved like so many of them did should have been banned regardless of politics.

To say they weren't banned for their politics but instead their behavior is a bit misleading in terms the sequence of events. The .world defederation was preemptive as near as I can tell- Hexbear turned on federation but before they federated with anyone, .world had already defederated. The citations in the .world defed thread were all pre-federation threads of people being hyped to connect to more people. Even if people were saying they wanted to 'bully libs', that just reads to me like people talking shit because as far as I can tell the hexbears never made a single post anywhere on .world.

The thread in question cited several threads, it's a bit dramatic in places, but also explicitly instructing people not to break rules- instructed not to even register accounts for trolling. Standard things to be aware of in posting on a federated instance even if they are being dramatic or saying they're propagandists- there's plenty of normal people there from what I've observed this last year. If the points they outlined in that post are to be their party line then at least they're just stating it right there so you know what their angle is going to be.

I feel like the case that it was not political censorship would be stronger if the whole thing had been less vibes based from the start.