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
“We 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.”
While almost everyone tends to agree with the principles of freedom of expression, whenever someone says, “This space is an absolute free speech zone” or similar, you can almost always assume they’re just fascists who got told https://xkcd.com/1357/
I think most people strongly dislike free speech, but they want the right to express themselves, and the government allowing dissent is a necessary evil so they keep their own free speech. That’s why they jump at any opportunity to limit everyone else’s speech. People loved to say reddit was a private platform that can do what they want, so long as they kept the censorship to their political enemies.
No, people don’t dislike free speech, people hate bigots, Nazis, etc. If the political position you want to discuss is based on hate it’s not “a difference of opinion” and it’s not “censorship” when you get your ass shown the door. go to truth social or one of the .win sites with your fellow shitstains if you want that.
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Can we please not do this “style of arguing” here? If you reply to a comment, reply to that comment by replying to the points and arguments in the comment. Don’t make up stuff or twist words.
Dont worry, it was removed for your protection.
He can stop crying now
I am always wary of people using ‘freedom’ as an argument. Most of the time it is followed by ‘because I want …’.
Equality and freedom have to find a balance. I don’t do to others what I don’t want for myself. Even if that is limiting my ‘freedom’.
Depends on what you mean with “free speech”. If you think “free speech” is about having unmoderated online spaces, yes, most people definitely dislike unmoderated online spaces because most don’t like toxic communities…
But you do realize that the government cracking down on speech is an entirely different issue to defederating a lemmy server, right? The exploding-heads are free to run their community however they want.