I don't feel it's my place to push back on the matter of the locking of the specific post - as we covered, it's your vision that you need to implement.

But since you seem interested in the wider topic in general, I will say that warning people about the variety of ah... "behaviors" that one is likely to encounter across the Fediverse is precisely what I think is most lacking from most instances (at least those that haven't defederated from the most extremist ones, which e.g. my first instance Kbin had, but it is defunct now and anyway it was definitely in the minority there - e.g. across the entire Fediverse the only instance that I've ever seen that has defederated Lemmy.ml is Lemmy.cafe, which I only found about about today:-).

Every single person that I've told about Lemmy irl has come back in the next conversation to say "do you realize the extremist content (advocating for violent overthrow of the government) that is on there?" The thing is, having blocked it myself, I do tend to forget... for me Lemmy is about interesting conversations, fun memes, e.g. about computer coding, etc. But advocation for violence is not something so easily pushed aside, by someone new who doesn't know how to block yet (and what even would they block - a community? a user? an entire instance? being new, they simply do not understand yet what is likely to work, and what each decision entails. what they want to block is "disturbing content", but there is no checkbox for that, and seeing how untruthful so many people are, likely to never be one)

Communities like Chapotraphouse or The Donald or even so many posts in [email protected], which depict e.g. actual decapitation of landlords, is not something that "normal", "mainstream" people in the Western world are wanting to see. e.g. people leaving Twitter/X bc Musk is too extreme and Mastodon too problematic, only to find that generally speaking, Lemmy contains even more extremist content, though on what is claimed to be the leftist side.

So kudos for wanting to carve out an island of sanity. It remains to be seen how people, especially new ones, will find it, amidst all the noise, but still it's a laudable goal. And then I still don't get why new people wouldn't be interested in individual instances - I would be - but that's your business.:-P

I do think it would help to clarify the description of the community though, to make the aims more clear as the Fediverse grows, rather than you having to explain yourself to each poster, after-the-fact. Anyway I wanted to offer that thought - thanks for listening:-).

You can now... and if you were willing to go individually account-by-account, then you always could. I'm glad you found your niche - it's nice to widen your worldview and listen to it all, sometimes:-).

Though I'm on the other end of the spectrum: having spent nearly a decade listening to people's oddball takes on everything under the sun, and bending over backwards to accommodate it all as if it had some semblance of validity, I now find myself wanting to substantially narrow my input stream. Ngl, reading and watching/listening to - and more importantly thinking deeply about - such things as Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook, and the actual Trump presidency that caused our current inflation crisis and oh yeah killed more people than all wars combined iirc, really changed my approach on giving such viewpoints the time of day. There's a difference between sounding smart (like screetching: "show me your source material, bitch!", while also looking down on the recipient in every way), vs. actually being thus, imho.

However, if you want to keep your finger on the pulse of many sides regarding a particular matter, then I'm so glad that the federated servers allow us each to experience such a diversity of goals, even on the same platform! 😄

I hope you take this the right way when I say that you sound like you have lost your mind. Please, for our sakes, don't ever find it. 😜

Most instances have already blocked lemmygrad. Yours is one of a very few that has not.

Regarding the recent locked post: as the creator it is indeed your vision that you need to maintain. I do hope that you will consider editing the description of this community to clarify such for people in the future:

Manual curation of great Lemmy discussions and threads

Otherwise it made sense that it would fit? Perhaps... "please, no drama" or some such? Well, it's a thought:-).

Second:

if YOU think a post is worth sharing, that’s good enough

But if actual posts are not desired, only comments underneath those, that would help to clarify as well. Otherwise "discussion" can be ambiguous.

I hope this meta-discussion itself is of interest:-).

Not all. People over-generalize to forget that Lemmy.ml (and lately more people from Midwest.social) have always blended the experiences, being able to post to both "sides" like hexbear.net and lemmy.world that are defederated from one another.

And lemm.ee too though iirc they consider themselves more truly neutral than leftists?

And some alts too ofc:-).

Your instance allows it, so you probably blocked them, at which point it won't show up on your instance using your account.

Or something weird with your chosen app.

Either way you can use the webpage interface to view it directly in a browser if you want, entirely anonymously (though to comment you'd need to unblock them first).

If they can learn more to live in the world, like to have discussions politely, then they can learn much over the years.

While if they must remain constrained to the spaces that will tolerate them... then they may, probably even, not.

Even if that were true - and it's objectively not - sinking to that level does nobody any good.

Take care of yourself, and don't worry overmuch about people on the internet being wrong, would be my take:-). (Also, they cannot ban you here - hexbear.net is an entire instance, and BestOfLemmy is not a community that resides on it, but rather Lemmy.World)

I would argue that the belief of communism is besides the point here - even if certain people really truly did know better than certain other people, about whatever matter, then that is all the more reason to be particularly convincing with sound argumentation espousing rational behavior, rather than trolling and brigading and banning tactics. And if not... then they may feel as free as they like to complain, as people who refuse to do otherwise go ahead and block them, and warn others about what they are likely to encounter if they go into those echo chambers.

The big 3 - lemmgrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml, and now reportedly add midwest.social as far as this matter is concerned (though that one still differs in other matters, as regardless of the behavior of its admins, most users seem to just see the word "midwest" and think "I'm kind-of left-leaning myself so...") - are extremely well-known for banning people at the drop of a hat. Much (exactly) like conservatives, authoritarianism is totally okay, so long as it occurs by their preferred, blessed places/people - it is only those "other" people, especially those who don't agree hard enough, that derive the most ire from them.

This comes at the risk of being REALLY disappointed... 😝