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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Right now, instances with transphobic and racist content like exploding-heads are still listed on join-lemmy.org. Are you planning to implement a Server Convenant like on joinmastodon.org? To be listed on joinmastodon.org, an instance needs “Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia”.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The instance list is fine as is. Think about it like this: do you want racists to join a single instance so they are all in one place? Or do you want them to spread across all different instances, causing moderation problems everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I think it would be best if they would all gather on one instance that can get defederated. Right now they attract users on join-lemmy with "Use humor and facts to hold the ruling class accountable", no other info.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i would rather want the racists to not be able to go anywhere at all

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesnt really matter what you want. The software is open source so anyone can use the software freely. No way to prevent it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

yea sure there will always be racist instances but they shouldn't be promoted on sites like join-lemmy.org

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's possible that anti-racist, queer or any other serious organisation might not want to link to join-lemmy.org as a result.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats fine, they can provide their own list of instances where users can choose from.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are on your list (which is seen as the official one by many and has most visits) to guide transphobes and fascists to their fitting community?? Exploding-heads is not labeled as transphobe and fascist on join-lemmy. So that does't make sense.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What type(s) of transphobia?