It is the very title of the post in the 2nd link.

The post title says he locked the post, not that he banned anyone.

This one, however, advertises that it is welcoming as it desires to become larger.

It's welcoming, but not to everyone. "No bigotry, hate speech, No zionists, No fascists". Doesn't say it's limited only to activity on their server.

What you are missing is that additional people are being affected, beyond merely the instance admin and the people who wish to block that instance.

Every admin and every instance has their own rules and their own standard for who can participate in their communities. This admin has chosen the proactive route, but those who get locked out have plenty of other places to go, and they can even successfully appeal their ban. That's the benefit of the fediverse, and I think it's perfectly acceptable to preemptively ban people from your community if they display the kind of behavior you find unacceptable. It's your party, and you can uninvite whoever you want.

I don't have any problem with you sharing your take, but I haven't seen anything here that I take issue with. You're free to disagree but I like that server just fine.

Banning people for downvoting your posts is a little weird.

Where do you see that he was banning people for downvoting? He locked the post, sure, but things were certainly devolving in that thread. Looks like he just said an unpopular thing and then taunted downvoters for disagreeing.

As in, the instance is small for a reason, due to people avoiding it.

Frankly, I think large instances are a huge problem. I think every instance should be as small as midwest.social.

Yea, go nuts with avoiding it if you're not a fan. I think seahorse would actually appreciate it if people who know they aren't going to like his community not bother him with new registrations.

Like I said, I quite like that admin.

I get why people (especially people who do not share his perspectives) might not appreciate the blunt moderation, but I happen to agree with both of those examples.

The first one was someone abusing the report function against people who were not breaking any server rules. Midwest.social does not have a rule against calls to violence, and I personally do not have a problem with calling for violence against billionares, just like I don't have a problem with calls to violence against nazis or genociders. If it were my server, and I was getting dozens of reports from the same person complaining about people wishing harm to billionares, I would probably ban them, too.

I honestly don't see a problem with the second post, unless you just think he's being an ass.

I quite like that admin, he has a very 'no bullshit' attitude.

I get why you might be confused though, he tends to issue bans for comments or posts on other instances that he finds or are reported (instance admins get reports from users on their instance regardless of if it originates on a different one). I actually quite appreciated it myself, but I very much share his political perspective so its not for everyone.

Midwest.social is small anyway, so its not a big deal.

Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular

This part floored me. As if it wasnt Israel that was currently denying equal rights to Palestinians and not the other way around... this is just the zionist version of 'all lives matter' bullshit.

I find in endlessly funny that we've been screaming at the democrats to leverage Israel more to end hostilities in the ME without any real movement from them, but suddenly Trump is willing to say 'fuck it' just because the right people happen to be bribing him.

If the right people keep trump's palms greased for long enough we might actually end up on the right side of history by accident, and if that's not comedy I don't know what is.

He explicitly supports Palestinian resistance

WHY IS THIS MAN STILL IN OFFICE

Between this and the other story earlier this week, its crystal fucking clear that he is not well. Does nobody close to him care about his clear brain damage from his stroke? It's like the entire federal government is weekend at bernie's and the whole thing is being run by staffers

You don't understand, their support of lesser fascism is necessary to avoid the greater fascism, so by opposing them you're actually supporting the greater fascism

Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can't even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).

I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?

I'm actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM's

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but unless you work as a security engineer or in another security-focused tech field, you really shouldn't be exposing your homelab to the open internet anyway

Most people access their homelabs via VPN - i don't see anything here that's a problem for that use-case.

Democrats vote against all the Republican bills

If this were even true (what was Schumer in hot water over again?), what the fuck does 'voting against republican bills' do when the black-shirts are already rounding up immigrants?

Democrats can't run around screaming about the end of democracy for 8 years and then wax romantic about the need for 'bipartisanship' when they're starting to line people up against the wall.