This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • @[email protected]M
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    361 year ago

    The instance list is fine as is. Think about it like this: do you want racists to join a single instance so they are all in one place? Or do you want them to spread across all different instances, causing moderation problems everywhere?

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      Yes, I think it would be best if they would all gather on one instance that can get defederated. Right now they attract users on join-lemmy with “Use humor and facts to hold the ruling class accountable”, no other info.

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          1 year ago

          I think you got downvoted because people were not looking for a way to make it ok for the racist instances to stay on join-lemmy.

          I am not really familiar with shadowbannig, but users could just check their posts from another instance and find out about the ban.

    • stebo
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      101 year ago

      i would rather want the racists to not be able to go anywhere at all

      • @[email protected]M
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        201 year ago

        It doesnt really matter what you want. The software is open source so anyone can use the software freely. No way to prevent it.

        • stebo
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          201 year ago

          yea sure there will always be racist instances but they shouldn’t be promoted on sites like join-lemmy.org

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          1 year ago

          They are on your list (which is seen as the official one by many and has most visits) to guide transphobes and fascists to their fitting community?? Exploding-heads is not labeled as transphobe and fascist on join-lemmy. So that does’t make sense.