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Petition: Defederate from exploding-heads.com (exploding-heads.com)
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As far as I see that instance is a far-right cess pool. Everything I've got from that instance were low-quality transphobic "news articles".

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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I am against defederations being decided by instance admins. Lemmy needs (kbin being more mature project at least has domain blocking) tools to let users decide themselves what they want or don't want to see. Are you an adult or you need others to decide for you? I have blocked lemmygrad and other tankie/nazi (same shit) instances (domains) myself. If I don't want to see eg. transgender stuff then I don't cry about it but just block it. Grow a pair and do the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have blocked lemmygrad

so did I

and other tankie/nazi (same shit) instances (domains) myself.

didn't see that yet but at least some user with a name in that direction.

Anyway, I found it quite not amusing to see this stuff on my second day of using Lemmy - which was 2 weeks ago or so. Honestly, I've seen enough online communities degenerate and having a few power users/enthusiasts who like fine tuning every setting is not enough to get a healthy community going.

I think if Lemmy doesn't get it's shit together in that regard, it'll be like Mastodon where there are alt-right communities powered by it and then another normal (or whatever you want to call it?) part. However I've been quite surprised when my first subscriber was some alt-right dude. That was enough for me to delete my account.

At the moment I see chances 50/50 that Lemmy can make it. But this highly depends on:

  1. making it convenient for non-technical people (discoverability across instances)
  2. have a reasonable filtering system (if it's fully democratic and it works that would be awesome. but to be realistic, that would be a first...)
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