A bit over a month ago, a user posted in [email protected] to propose defederating from maga.place. That post was followed by a discussion in [email protected] a week ago, which seems to have gained some traction. In response, we’re going to hold a vote on the matter. Voting will be open for one week, through Friday, November 7.
The Agora discussion post is here:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/48420886
Only sh.itjust.works accounts created prior to today (October 31) may cast a vote.
Vote by commenting either yes/aye/oui or nay/no/non.
Any further discussion should happen in the Agora post linked above.
Additional Context/Discussions
Similar discussion at lemmy.ca: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46502305
Other fediverse instances are also defederating: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48111431
The instance’s page at Fediseer: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/maga.place
VOTE RESULT
Results will be listed here after voting is closed.
I think you mean RFK Jr? Fauci was and probably still is very much in favor of vaccines.
If you trust two doctors and they give different medical advice, and you only accept one as accurate, does that mean you stop trusting the first doctor? No. People can be wrong sometimes, so it’s fine.
RFK Jr isn’t even a doctor, he was a lawyer turned politician. I think it’s reasonable to trust that he’s doing his best even when he misinterprets medical studies, especially when he’s under the gun to get an answer by a specific date (he said he’d “solve” autism by September, and that announcement was made at the end of September).
To be clear, I don’t trust RFK Jr or Trump, I’m merely providing what I think is a reasonable explanation of the survey results. I think it’s logically reasonable to trust your local doctor for your personal medical needs, and also trust RFK Jr for setting nationwide policy, even if he’s wrong sometimes on specifics.
[email protected]. That’s the instance we’re on, and without any further information, that’s what I’m going to assume since this discussion is about sh.itjust.works policy.
Here are some sources that I find sketchy on [email protected]:
That’s just from the first page or two of results. A “mostly factual” post here and there is probably fine, but having several posts in the first page or two is concerning. Maybe mods remove even worse posts, idk, I don’t sub there.
And honestly, this is fine, because generally speaking, the mods seem to do a good job removing the worst of it.
We don’t know if maga.place will be run that way, or if they’ll be a firehose of misinformation.
I don’t know if that’s actually fair. The MAGA movement is large, and a lot of them are frustrated with the current administration that’s the face of the MAGA movement, so there’s more division than cohesion IMO. The only thing they seem to agree on is “owning the libs,” but they get mad when there’s collateral damage to themselves.
That said, we don’t know where on the spectrum of “MAGA” this instance is. Maybe they just picked the name because they thought it would be funny to “own the libs,” or maybe they’re actually a psyop. Until we know, I don’t think we should defederate.
Ok but my point is they give the same credence to rfk’s opinion on something as their doctor. That is literal insanity that could only happen through propaganda. Not ONE thing he has said has been legitimate or factual. https://www.health.com/rfkjr-beef-tallow-seed-oils-8744688 There are about 100 more examples like this https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/28/rfk-cdc-director-susan-monarez-fired/ Cdc leaders and experts say rfk is going to damage public health https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/rfk-jr-cdc-panel-vaccines.html There are z e r o legitimate studies that support vaccine skepticism, yet here he is. The fact that he said he’d solve autism is also literally insane! It’s a complete misunderstanding of what autism is, again, based on propaganda. It’s not a disease, it’s a neurodivergence, and the “epidemic” of autism as he says is people actually being diagnosed. Which people would know if not for the propaganda telling them otherwise.
I’m using the biggest politics community on lemmy because that should give an idea of politics posts the general leftist makes, as compared to the average MAGA post.
The friendlyaetheist post was reporting what happened, so I don’t know why you’d even mention it. It lists the sources it uses as it says them, credibility is irrelevant.
I’m not sure why you’re smuggling in the implication that those sites aren’t undeniably 100% factual? If I say “trump flounders after his tarrifs hurt the economy” this is 100% factual reporting, with biased language. I would not complain if the maga posts said “Biden flounders over war in ukraine.” But they don’t. They verifiably lie. Thedailybeast is CLOSE, but still nowhere near the level of the maga posts. And interesting you bring that up as the biased source, because under every slightly unfactual post from the daily beast the first comment is always stop posting this biased trash!
We have evidence that 1/5 posts are misinformation. The others were “person x says y about person z.” If ANYONE in my life 1/5 things they said was propaganda meant to fool me, I would tell everyone I knew to stay away, he’s trying to trick you. I also didn’t verify the quotes, and I didn’t count things like “former CIA director loses his cool about hunter Biden laptop” which is a dogwhistle that this is a real controversy and shows democrats are corrupt and trying to hide it. On the second page right now, you have:
CIA director loses his cool (dogwhistle, tries to make you believe hunter Biden laptop is important to distract from trumps constant crimes)
2 normal posts
2nd amendment pros outweigh the cons - contains lots of verifiably false information about how carrying guns prevents crime.
1 biased but factual post
Gen z candidate storms out of interview after being shown clip of her menacing federal officers - discrediting the younger generation, discrediting people who oppose ICE, you could argue this but I can ask any MAGA person I know and they will say everything I just did
4 normal ish posts
1 post on how people flee socialist countries, implying it’s because they’re socialist (arguable if its misinfo)
Kamala harris snaps at… no she did not. At no point in the text does it have one quote where she is responding aggressively or angrily.
1 normal post
1 post implying Biden overused executive powers, to signal trump doing it is fair play.
So in 1 page you have 7 normal posts, 1 hateful “owned the libs” post, 2 arguably misinformation posts, and 2 blatant disinformation posts. If I gave you the option of that as your homepage, would you say that’s positive or negative? Even take out the other stuff, if I gave you a homepage of 10 normal posts and 2 blatant disinformation posts, and you didn’t know which was which, would you find that acceptable? What about for your friends and family?
84% of MAGA still supports Trump. The only way you could still support trump is based on misinformation, full stop. Hate the democrats sure you can do that, but not SUPPORTING trump, saying he’s doing a good job on the economy on health, it is IMPOSSIBLE to do that factually.