The post was basically:
feddit.org is a Nazi/Zionist-Bar, let’s vote if dbzer0 should block the community xyz (it was not a vote about defederation).

And the “voting” was done by upvoting/downvoting the post, not through comments. Funnily enough the top comments were complaints against the situation and when this was pointed out it was put aside as “only upvoted because of feddit.org Trolls”. I actually counted and while there were upvotes from feddit.org, the upvote/downvote ratio from only dbzer0-users was 2:1.

Then they said if enough people want to defederate they will put that in consideration. After multiple comments calling for that they decided on it without an extra vote.

It’s like putting an ad on TV with a heavy bias and asking people to press a button on a remote. My idea was that anarchists are supposed to inform themselves about topics that get voted on but I’m pretty sure a lot of them just went with the flow.

Did you try Firefox (Nightly) + uBlock Origin + Sponsor Block?

I don’t know much about the *eerr stuff… Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I’m using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it’s crashing regularly or isn’t able to find magnet links.

It’s a matter of influence. People just tend to believe in “popular” opinions.

If someone asks: “What’s the best vacuum cleaner?” And there is a highly upvoted answer, people tend to believe it as true.

Same goes for political opinions btw., that’s why dessalines bans users from lemmy.ml for downvoting.

“Anticommunists” aka people who dare to be critical of Russia and China

No… There is simply no doubt that there was Russian interference:

As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.

On February 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities— including the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and Concord Management and Consulting LLC (Concord)—with violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.

The Mueller investigation couldn’t bring criminal charges of conspiracy against Manafort & co., but they obviously had contact and were found guilty lying about it.

But sure, giving these people the benefit of the doubt is completely normal behavior in 2026. You go on defending them as much as you want.

Yeah, the reason being:

Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. The Office charged some of those lies as violations of the federal false-statements statute. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his interactions with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period. George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor during the campaign period, pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about, inter alia, the nature and timing of his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, the professor who told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on candidate Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. Former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about the Trump Moscow project.>

It’s not a conspiracy theory