We recently received a message from a concerned Rammy user regarding their instance not having an active admin team.
We have made attempts to contact the Rammy admins, which other instance admins have tried as well, to determine their current status. Due to their admins being absent and their unmoderated content growing in numbers, we will defederate from Rammy. If and when this situation changes, we will be happy to reevaluate our approach. It should be noted that any instances that have abandoned admin teams will be defederated.
I would not support uniting with those trolls in any way. I had not even looked at it beforehand. I agree that being divided sucks. But I think it’s important to remember that there are still good people out there, even if we don’t agree on everything. We need to find ways to come together and work towards a better future, even if it’s not always easy.
If I create a social media account and identify as left-leaning, I am bombarded with extremist right-wing content. The opposite is true if I identify as right-leaning. This has ruined social media for me, which is why I immediately blocked the news and political communities on Lemmy.
I do not identify as either left-wing or right-wing. I share views that are generally considered to be down the middle. This is true for the majority of people I know, who used to be called independents but now undecided. I guess thats why when an entire group is called out, it rubs me the wrong way.
So I actually used to be in exactly your position. Policies used to be much more subjective. Urban planning? Financial stuff? Foreign policy? These are complicated questions with varying answers from not just different parties but different politicians. But things have changed recently. I feel like that’s actually a major part of the issues here that people are overlooking. People on the left jump on change faster overall so they’ve realized what’s happened to the right before the people who usually vote for the right have.
I don’t like blaming an entire group either but I’ve been pushed to believe it’s currently necessary. Being an independent isn’t about always choosing a compromise between the two extreme positions, it’s about deciding for yourself what policies are the most reasonable. Assuming your own views don’t change, this means that if one party moves further away from the middle, their views won’t align with your own as much. This can happen to both parties, but in my case I feel that the right has moved much further away from my views than the left has in the same period of time, so while I agree that the best position is somewhere in the middle of extreme right and left, that’s currently closer to the left for me and the right has begun to take positions that I find indefensible. If they swung back to where they were a decade ago things might be different.