Being cringe and an idiot doesn't seem like a legitimate reason for defederation. As long as it's not Nazi propaganda or CP.
I've seen mods like Stamets ban and threaten defederation for disagreeing with him. I was arguing that Star Trek Disco wasn't great and had to stop once I looked him up and realized I'd get kicked for not agreeing with him that Star Trek Discovery was great Star Trek.
I'd argue it's legitimate for server owners to decide who their servers communicate with arbitrarily. Servers that want to be popular, however usually have consistent policies for moderation.
I self-host Mastodon and subscribed to a couple relays early on so my server has seen content from a variety of places. After I added a full-text search patch, I searched for some slurs to see if any racist content had reached my server. Some had, and it was all from poa.st - hardcore Nazi and KKK sort of stuff. I would absolutely block them if I was operating a public server.
Fortunately, those people don't try to interact with the bird photography and flashlight reviews my accounts post, so I haven't had to do any moderation.
Literally none of them. This dude is pissed off and angry that he lost an argument a month ago. He keeps bringing this up while somehow graduating me from moderator to admin for no reason whatsoever. Especially hilarious considering he says that he broke off the argument after seeing i'm a mod when the actual message thread he was involved in directly proves the exact opposite. I've also never suggested defederation with anyone except for hexbear and lemmygrad. Two instances that Lemmy.world are already defederated from.
Someone sent me a message of a couple of his posts saying this. Just frustrated me. If people don't like me that's fine. I don't care what people call me. But I do care when people are basing their opinion off of something that isn't true.
And nah. You weren't a bozo. You fine. Happy holidays buddy.
That Stamets person is a mod? I have a comment from them in my inbox that I thought for sure was sent by an angry middle schooler who somehow found their way on Lemmy.
No. You have literally not seen me do that. Moreover, I was a mod of /c/gay and /c/memes up until today, neither of which are Star Trek related or would have gotten you banned. Moreover, the conversation in question was this one, one that I disengaged from but you continued.