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
βWe are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.β
The main difference is users can, generally speaking, easily choose which instance to be a user on. All those French people in France can't, in your example, be expected to casually emigrate somewhere because their leader is disliked, but it's as simple to choose one Fediverse instance as it is another and moving between them is trivial.
Every user on the defederated instance can easily choose to use (and abide by the rules of) any other Lemmy instance which follows the Lemmy Code of Conduct better than this blocked instance did.
No, it's more like Country A instituting a temporary travel ban on people coming from Country B while there's a sudden outbreak, and then Country A's judicial and legal system reviewing that decision to see whether it should be permanent or not.
I agree with you. But defederation should be the last resort. You not only isolate the other instance but your instance too. The more this happens the higher the chance to create an echo chamber. I like to decide for myself which communities I want block.
Defederation is the last resort, and it's clearly being correctly used as such here.