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Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld

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Hello World,

Today, after careful consideration and evaluation of recent events, we have decided to defederate from Lemmygrad.

Regrettably, we have observed a significant increase in hate speech and calls to violence originating from the Lemmygrad instance. Due to the severity of the posts and comments, we are not waiting for the next Lemmy update that will allow users to block instances.

At Lemmy.world, we have always strived to foster an inclusive and welcoming user environment. However, recent posts and comments from Lemmygrad have clearly violated our server rules and, more importantly, our core values. We firmly believe that hate speech and incitement of violence have no place in our community, regardless of personal beliefs or affiliations.

As always, we encourage all users to report any content they deem inappropriate or harmful. No matter one's stance in any conflict, Lemmy.world will always take immediate action to remove and ban any posts or comments that incite violence or propagate hatred.

We encourage everyone to continue engaging in discussions within the boundaries of respect and understanding. As we move forward with this decision, we remain committed to providing all community members with a safe and welcoming space. We appreciate your continued support and cooperation in upholding our shared principles.

Thank you,

The Lemmy.World Team

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

That's an existing out of the box feature. Admins can remove any content on their instance, wherever it came from originally. It's just that the removal doesn't federate to other instances unless they're also a moderator of the community it was posted to

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

That sounds pretty useless then, if a community is diverse in terms of instance membership. Only a small portion of people will see the version of the thread without the removed content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And that small portion of people would never know that content was taken away from them.

Sounds like censoring with extra steps.

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

I mean, you pick your instance for that stuff. If you value "free" speech over the wellbeing of minorities, then you join an instance that doesn't remove stuff.

If you're on an instance like mine, that is specifically focused on being a space for vulnerable folk, then removing horrible shit, even just locally, is a big positive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So wait, let me sure I understand this; an admin of an instance removes a comment posted to a community on their instance, but the comment is still visible to everyone outside of that instance? But a moderator can make it a 'real' removal. If that's the case why would that admin be ok with the moderators of that community not also removing that comment? If they own the servers, why do they even need a moderator to do this for them to broadly remove the comment? This seems like a very strange way for it to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Admin removals not federating for groups they don't moderate is important, or troll admins could just delete everything in every group simply by spinning up a throw away instance.

Admins can also make themselves mods on communities hosted on their instance.

And the reason for the distinction is that communities often have rules beyond the instance. We host 196 for example, which is incredibly busy. I have no desire to watch all of the posts and moderate off topic posts or posts that forget to mention "the rule". So I watch for abusive users and other stuff that requires an admin, and leave the community rules to the mods

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

Because different instances have different rules. And communities have their own rules. wait till you learn that you only see coversations from the people your instance federates with. You could be seeing half the comments of a thread if the federation overlap between your instance and the host instance are not exactly the same.