I'm no fan of defederating over minor disagreements but yeah, some types of people are just incompatible with building a welcoming space. Good choice.

Everybody crying about free speech because they got cut off from the nazis are very welcome to go sign up with the nazis and let the door hit you on the way out.

That seems like the right choice. Those seem to be some pretty vile people. They can have their free speech, but it doesn't mean we have to listen to it. Normally I'd not be in agreeance about defederating, but hate speech shouldn't have a safe haven among us. Thanks, for defederating from them.

Thank you for your diligence, transparency, and for being proactive about this. I, for one, am glad to see that racism, bigotry, and homophobia are not welcome on lemmy.world, and that the admin team takes that seriously.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence. Good for everybody

Thank you. One of those dudes were over on sh.itjust.works when they defederated it, arguing that the exploding heads community was totally fine! As you can see... no, it was not: https://lemmy.world/comment/577634

You can expand the rest comment section for context but the screenshot in the link speaks for itself.

Edit: here come the downvotes! The exploding heads guys really hate that I screenshotted & exposed the cesspit they call home. Lol

Thank you for your transparency! As always, very appreciated.

Good! The older I get the more I realize that free speech at all cost is bullshit. Every idea or thought does not deserve a platform.

Good call! Thanks for creating a welcoming atmosphere for all!

Good riddance

Fantastic. I don't want to have to block all transphobic shithole communities since that requires me looking at them. If hateful people could just group together in their 4chan bubbles which are defederated from sane people, that'd be awesome.

And this right here is what separates Lemmy from voat: active community moderation that works to limit the reach of hateful bigots. While I’m a big proponent of free speech myself, I do agree that many kinds of ‘speech’ aren’t the most conductive thing for building a welcoming platform; especially one that caters to many vulnerable groups.

This move also highlights the core strength of a decentralized platform, by the way: while people who no longer want to engage with this content can stay safe, nobody was deplatformed! We achieved a clean break without banning or ‘silencing’ anybody.

So, good job on responsibly using the defed hammer!

Damn those sysadmin posts are dire.

I'm happy you guys announced it and posted visual proof of why you decided to defederate from them.

Trasparence in the management will shine a bright way ahead!

I'm not a fan of de federation except in extreme circumstances... but this is a good choice. Its not a couple mods being slow to respond to reports, but real nasty speach from admins.

Thank you.

Thank you, admins!

This is one thing you're getting right that Reddit never got right. They let shit like the_donald fester for years.

thanks for this. Feels good to be on an instance that takes it seriously!

In case it hasn't been suggested before, it might be a good idea to give users the ability to block a whole instance, rather than one magazine at a time

To those whinging about the decision to defederate Exploding Heads, think about it this way.

Mastodon once got a massive influx of users because Gab attempted to expand their influence as a far-right Twitter competitor by joining their fediverse. The various other instances responded in kind by collectively defederating Gab because they didn't want their platforms to be flooded by the racist and bigoted gruel that Gab's clientele were spewing out.

And here lies the beauty of free speech and the fediverse. People are free to create an instance with their own rules, but others are also free to disassociate from them.

Any time you limit the MAGA maggots it is a win for everyone.

I just love how we are reminded to observe the simple rules here. That's great. ;)

Originally reddit was very observant on what they called rediquette. But I honestly don't recall seeing it mentioned for the past 5 years.

As things degraded and rediquette was more and more needed, instead of reminding each other of it, it seems to have disappeared.

Thanks, a sensible action to take.

I hadn't been exposed to it, but it sounds like something I don't want to see.

I'm the head mod of /r/darkbrandon (75k) doing a voluntary migration to Lemmy & Kbin. We do not condone the behavior shown in that moderator post. I've setup a community on this instance so I'm just reaching to say that officially. Take care and thanks for hosting.

Good. I was getting sick of blocking them every time one of their new communities popped up that wasn't blocked yet. I have yet to see a single thread from that instance that didn't immediately make me block the user and community.

Good riddance.

I am trying to create a tolerant NSFW community on lemmy, it's the first time I hear about this "Citizen Code of Conduct". While I am totally opposed to Doxxing and general harassment, there is this part which concerns me:

4. Unacceptable Behavior

The following behaviors are considered harassment and are unacceptable within our community:

• [...]
• Posting or displaying sexually explicit [...] material.

Where does this apply? In lemmy code contribution? or in the communities? If this applies to the community, this is quite worrisome.

Good move. We don't need to tolerate nazis. Though the code of conduct is admittedly progressive and this in itself will exclude people who are conservative. I am OK with seedy underbellies, or areas with people I don't agree with and I think we should avoid being moral police where possible, but the rhetoric on exploding heads is too much. They aren't actually conservatives they are just insane people, literal crazies that belong on 4chan or voat, or maybe truth social if that's still a thing.

I support this move after a quick glance at their site. Thank you team!

Went over to their site. I found it ironic that their ten level reply thread complaining about the defederation made me realize that the different level reply colors form a rainbow. Hopefully that isn't for just June, it is very helpful when trying to figure out who is responding to who.

I’m not usually a fan of defederation, but I'm actually glad to see it in this case. It's beneficial to have healthy disagreements in opinion and interactions with people who don’t share your views. However, I haven't witnessed anything positive resulting from these interactions so far.

I really appreciate your transparency and responsiveness to the community.

This is great. Free speech and edgy jokes are one thing, but this is literally just random crazy racist sexist bullshit with a classic case of Biden derangement syndrome. Why even bother federating with these boggarts

This is how you do it. The Code of Conduct is established. Habitually violating the Code leads to defederation. It's simple, and need not be dramatic.

I don't want an echo chamber, but excluding bad actors is not the same thing as excluding differing views and perspectives.

Good riddance. You want your free speech? Fine. You're not owed my free ear, though. Take your insufferable twaddle elsewhere.