We're closing this thread. Everything that could be said has been said. Thank you
Original Post:
Today, we want to inform everyone that we have decided to defederate from https://exploding-heads.com/. We understand that defederating should always be a last resort, and individuals can certainly block communities. However, blocking alone does not prevent potential harm to vulnerable communities.
After carefully reviewing the instance, reported posts, and multiple comments from the community, we have concluded that exploding-heads is not adhering to the Lemmy or Citizen Code of Conduct. Therefore, we cannot, in good faith, continue to federate with an instance that consistently promotes hate, racism, and bullying.
Examples:
https://lemmy.world/post/577526 - Community Moderator Harassment
https://exploding-heads.com/post/92194 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/90780 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/91488 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/93725 - Community Moderator Post
Again, deciding to defederate from an instance is not taken lightly. In the future, we will continue to review instances on a case-by-case bases.
As for our community, please refrain from posting or commenting with hateful words as well. Arguing back and calling people names is not the solution. The best course of action is to report the posts or comments violating our server rules.
Lemmy Code of Conduct
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
Citizen Code of Conduct https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md
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Then maybe this isn't the federation for you. I'm sure there's at least one host out there without standards.
And if there isn't one can always become the host with no standards!
I haven't tried to run a Lemmy instance yet, but that it is possible is really cool.
You're probably right. I was hoping this would be a place that reminded me more of the old internet, where there wasn't any intellectual guard rails.
I guess those days are good and gone.
There were always 'guard rails' as you put it. If you spouted hate speech or made some other kind of post that offended people then you were likely to end up banned. That's always been true whether it's irc channels, phpbb forums, online chatrooms, reddit, lemmy or whatever the medium of choice at that time was.
If you find an instance without moderation, it will probably have a lot of toxic users and will eventually get defederated by other instances. I saw someone talk about creating a lurker only instance where users can't post anything, so maybe that would work.