This wouldn’t be much of an issue if they didn’t regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, …

So what you’re essentially saying is that these moderators are effectively propagandists/state actors for China, Russia, and so on. I left Reddit to get away from psychic attacks like that, so I’m perfectly happy to defed from the instance. Glad I have the option, too.

Mm, true yeah

I was curious what freak.university was but it just leads to a 404 :/

Goofy ah copypasta. Copyright applies automatically, you don’t need to publish a statement proclaiming it. Facebook is already forbidden from using your work commercially without your consent. They’ll do it anyway though because Zuck knows he can get away with it

Awesome, thanks for the explanation :) Now I’m curious as to what poa.st did/does to be so reviled

Oh okay, that makes sense. And I’m assuming “Defederations” in the image is like the number of accounts in that defederated group?

Can someone give me a brief rundown on what it means to be federated vs defederated? New to lemmy