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Our instance is only defederated from one other instance and it's lemmygrad. My question is why? It doesn't seem like a hate group or anything as far as I can tell. Can someone fill me in?

I hope I posted this to the right place; still getting used to how lemmy works. If I should post elsewhere, let me know.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (8 children)

...while still being federated with the fascist exploding-heads.com

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Clicked on it and the first thing I saw is "women's bodies were meant for the male gaze"

I'm not a fan of lemmygrad at all but yeah thats wild lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only gripe with using FMHY as my main.

Edit: looks like itโ€™s been fixed! Thanks FMHY admins!

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, can we talk about this? Nobody said anything so I tought we were waiting until this server became a target to defederate them or something, I basically have everything from that instance blocked

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah we've discussed it more and we decided we're defeding exploding. As far as why we're defeded from lemmygrad, they're just known for causing problems similar to exploding heads and we just want to keep things drama free.

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

If you guys can link some bad posts that are actively encouraged by the instance then I'll add it to the blocked list. (This is why it isn't blocked right now - all I've heard is that it's just right wing, which doesn't constitute a block.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't seem like it's the majority of users or people on the instance. From nbats on disc:

I just need more proof they're actually super malicious because most of the stuff linked was downvoted on exploding. in other words yeah shitheads exist there, but they don't seem to be the majority really

EDIT: after some further discussion we've decided to defederate. we'll be making a post sometime soon with a defederation policy.

[โ€“] nostalgicgamerz 17 points 1 year ago

Eyy yo what the fuck. I didnโ€™t know that. Iโ€™ll likely unsubscribe if they keep them in their loop

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like more defederation is needed, not less.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or just no defederation at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

And this is why I wish instance user blocking was an option rather than just the nuclear option of defederating.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not anymore

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's fucked up

[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances. You basically had to either defederate from Lemmygrad or have every conversation get derailed by people going on about how Stalin was actually a pretty chill dude. Defederating from Lemmygrad probably isn't so important anymore, but it's just kind of stuck around out of inertia at this point, I think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances.

This is correct. After all, setting up an instance like Lemmygrad -as an alternative places where discussing politics (especially leftist politics) outside of reddit's moderation reach- was one of the reasons Lemmy was developed in the first place. Lemmy's developers are not shy about it, they include it in the official docs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao it's literally in the name. Like Leningrad

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had not picked up on this. Thanks for pointing that out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't hurt that Dessalines got banned from reddit for posting Uyghur genocide apologetics. He wanted a safe space where that's cool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Well when I was first choosing a lemmy instance to call home I looked into lemmygrad. The sign up message basically said Marxist Lennists and friends only don't like those don't join. Which if you pardon the pun is a red flag.

Then I read some posts and basically anything not Marxist Lenninst or Socialism with Chineese characeristics was basically called evil and shunned. Every post I read was just so hostile to any thought even slightly different to theirs. Being called a CIA asset in a posted article was an interesting one I must say.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw one post from Lemmygrad and it was like listening to MAGA heads, except instead of conservatism, it was extreme communism.

Extremists on either side are not good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but if you're going to defederate from one instance for ideological reasons, why not others? Someone else linked another instance that is pretty extreme in its right wing ideology, so to not defederate from that one seems sketchy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with that; but I'm not in control of any instance to make that decision.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm not saying you are. I'm just thinking that it's good to talk about as people who choose to use this instance. Maybe we can ask the person who does run it to change it if we all agree? Idk

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Kolanaki why is extremism โ€œnot goodโ€?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a pain in the arse when people make sweeping statements like that.

I see myself as an extremist, self described as on the radical far left. However I'm no way a tankie obsessed with Stalin and Mao and certainly not about to pretend genocides weren't committed.

There's certainly takeaways from Stalin and Maos and the ideology they moulded, but too quick people jump to their defences but equally any communism is instantly shot down as crazy.

Guess I'm rambling now. Basically in summary, you can be an extremist on the left that isn't authoritarian whilst still wanting everyone in society to have a fair share

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh what you're describing isn't extremism, but quite based. It only seems extreme because everyone has drifted so far right that any kind of leftist talking points are framed as being externe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree. That was kind of what I was getting at I suppose.

The overton window has catapulted so much to the fat right that 'everyone should have access to healthcare' is an 'absurd' and 'marxist' opinion.

[โ€“] ieatpillowtags 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It is a hate group in a way, itโ€™s just what they hate is the US, capitalism, โ€œthe westโ€, etc. And their solution is โ€œbring back the ussr at any costโ€, so you see a lot of โ€œUkraine was totally asking for itโ€ and similar.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I get your point, but the US, capitalism and The West aren't protected characteristics.

I'm on the far left, I think Stalin Simps are silly and deluded. The tankie love over there is too much. Whilst I am critical of NATO and their role in flaming the ongoing conflict in Ukraine I'd in no way try absolving Russia of their actions either.

[โ€“] nxfsi 2 points 1 year ago

That doesn't sound like socialism at all, rather fascism with a hammer and sickle painted on its face

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ew. That sounds like a gross bunch of people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@ieatpillowtags the difference is that none of the things you listed are individuals, hate groups are named because they hate people for who they are innately

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I picked the SDF instance for this reason, otherwise I would be on aussie.zone or lemmygrad as my main. I also have one on lemmy.ml but I prefer to distribute the server load.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly I may change instances over it... It doesn't sit right with me to only defederate from just an extreme leftist instance instead of both that and the extreme right one.

I'd personally rather defederate from neither and leave it up to the individual user to block what they don't want to see

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

Here they talk about this instance stand on defederation. It has some ~~vague~~ responses about this.

Edit: there are some not actually vague

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I'm in no way a tankie, but their reasoning is lacking for me if they aren't going to also de-federate from exploding heads etc

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