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That NATO is not purely defensive and NATO encirclement of Russia is a security risk to Russia? That seems very obvious.

NATO intervention in Libya was not defensive, which means NATO is a security threat. Surely you see that?

NATO’s intervention in Libya? Things haven’t been great for them, if you haven’t noticed.

And how did it turn out?

After what NATO did to Libya you might wonder why Russia doesn’t trust NATO.

Oh no, I think defederation is only necessary when an instance becomes a problem. Until piefed.social becomes a haven for trolls to manipulate vote counts (which might never happen) then it’s fine.

But if a dozen anonymized piefed.social votes start downvoting everything I say because they’re monitoring my account then their admins would need to do something about it. If they didn’t, I’d want defederation.

Nato is a defense pact, it doesn’t ever attack

NATO bombed Libya.

I am sympathetic to the argument that NATO expansion and the coup started this war.

But blaming Ukraine is absurd. They’re the victims of NATO expansion and the coup!

Oh I see, you were talking about a hypothetical where all instances hide their votes and so no one knows who is voting on anything.

My assumption was that these vote records would remain transparent on most instances because the instances that hide their votes just get defederated, because those are always going to be instances where trolls hide.

If everyone’s votes are public then it seems trivial to see how any particular user votes.

If user shithead69420 downvotes literally everything I post, they’re probably not a good faith user.

Banning trolls would be doable - they’d have patterns where they target specific users across many different communities. If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said, from controversial political takes to pictures of food to posts about gardening, that’s probably a malicious user.

But “brigading” doesn’t mean anything and I don’t respect the concept. You can’t ban it because you can’t define it in a way that doesn’t include normal usage of the site.

But they can just be banned from those instances?

Nothing stops defederation, though.

I’m not owned! I’m not owned!

I don’t want anyone staying on Reddit tbh