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Is lemmy.world federated with bad instances? (cw: nsfl) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw talk of them being federated with instances like "exploding heads" (literal neo-nazis) and "posting lolis rocks", along with having interactions from users there. Is that true? idk how to check for that, I can only just barely stumble around the normal forum interface.

If so, why? They've been going hard on purging communists user-by-user and comment-by-comment, which seems like a little bit of a secondary concern to nazis and pedos, especially something as simple as just blocking the instances at the very least. What's going on over there?

What I mentioned, if it is correct, might not be exhaustive, I'm just repeating what I heard about.

Edit: Correction, exploding heads are closer to being latter-day blue checks, complete garbage but not as pressingly bad as the other site.

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[–] fubo 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Blocking and unblocking should be normal, expected, easily discoverable, and openly discussed. There are a lot of people on the Internet; a nonzero number of them are frothing assholes; and frothing assholes are quite capable of running servers.

The whole system we're on here is still new and in rapid flux. Expect change. This isn't Reddit with admins saying for years that hosting /r/jailbait is essential to free speech. It takes time to develop agreeable responses to kinds of trouble this system hasn't yet seen.

SMTP email has been around since 1983. When I was running mail servers in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was still plenty of controversy over how to properly block spam & abuse from bad-actor mail servers. IRC has been around since 1988, and the history of IRC is the history of conflicts over federation; going back to the founding of EFNet by the exclusion of eris.berkeley.edu and any other server that peered with it.

That's what the long-term history of a federated service looks like. There is change. There is controversy. There are people goddamn sure that if you don't accept their horse porn, that you must hate free speech.

[–] smolgumball 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

frothing assholes

smh this is just the kind of NSFL content we're talking about

[–] fubo 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thread was already tagged :)

[–] smolgumball 1 points 2 years ago

hah touché!

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