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There's a new one suddenly popping up in my feed but obviously the reports are being "resolved" by the mods of that community. They suggested to me that I block their community but I will not because that is how you get a cesspit of an instance. How do we report disinformation communities straight to the admins?

Edit: the admins did remove the community in question so I'm going to take that as the official stance on disinformation communities and also assume that any type of community (right wing, left wing, or other) that are intentionally spreading disinformation will be removed. That makes me feel much better about the situation since this type of thing is pretty much guaranteed to pop up again.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

The admin here takes a conservative stance on defederation. He doesn't do it unless there are lemm.ee rules violations or network abuse. I haven't looked at any explodingheads content, but if it does not violate any lemm.ee rules and presents no network abuse it will probably not get defederated.

I agree with lemm.ee's philosophy on defederation and that's one of the reasons this is my home instance. In general you can't call for defederation just because you don't agree with content. If it's blatantly offensive then I suppose that would be valid grounds, but I would hope that reason is used sparingly. I mean discussion that's offensive to you may not be offensive to me.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's hosted on this instance: https://lemm.ee/c/vaccines

"All reports calling post here missinformation will be ignored unless the post says that covid vaccines are healthy. Which is dangerous missinformation because covid vaccines kill."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This isn't about defederating it's about misinformation communities being hosted on this instance.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This instance is still federated with explodingheads, so I wouldn't expect anything to come of this. I saw the community you're speaking about and it seems to be pretty small-time. You're best off just blocking it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's barely even misinformation, but definitely some of the laziest trolling I've seen in years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He's doing that because I upset him but if you look at the actual links they go to known disinformation sites.

Edit: and he's also probably upset about the downvotes, which were definitely not all awarded by me.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a general-purpose instance on a decentralized platform that doesn’t have much of an algorithm. All of us here most likely run into things we don’t like or want to see, and as long as it’s not illegal I think things like this will still be allowed. You can always block communities and follow ones that you like to tailor what you see. If you’re looking for more specific content all around, I’d join an instance that’s more specific to the type of content you’re looking for

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We're talking about a community that is dedicated to posting misinformation and apparently trolling. It is very common for that kind of content and community to be explicitly forbidden in general purpose online communities because that isn't general purpose content. This isn't a matter of things people simply don't want to see. It's content that has proven to be problematic for any community that it infiltrates and generally results in a decline in quality and decorum.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm new here so I don't have much of a vote, but I have mixed feelings here. I like the idea of not blocking content, but at the same time I think a Vaccines community that is dedicated to spreading misinformation is not something healthy to have.

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

Reactionary communities are also the bedbugs of social media.

Once they established themselves on reddit, they quickly spread to other subs and overwhelmed their content with brigading and vote manipulation, trying to push lonely, frustrated people into the far-right funnel.

Thats why I'm not interested in an instance that tolerates them. "Getting an inch and taking a mile" is exactly their statetgy and they'll quickly render local communities worthless.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

God I fucking hope not. There are plenty of other servers that take this stance that you can sign up on. Don't try to change this instance when there's a million out there that already do what you're looking for

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