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.”
I’m on kbin.social and I’ve never seen an exploding heads post.
They may be getting drowned out by the huge lemmy instances. I’ve only seen a bare handful of content from them, but the quality of every one made me refresh my memory on blocking instances. I really never thought I’d be advocating defederation so quickly, but we already have a 4chan and it’s not kbin
I don’t think they’ve targeted kbin in the same way exploding-heads seem to have targeted other Lemmy instances, but when I checked a day or so ago we were still federated. I blocked the whole instance …but I can’t now remember how that was done. Somehow you can make an instance appear like a magazine from kbin, then you can follow or block it in much the same way too.
Edit:
From the comments below, head to https://kbin.social/d/exploding-heads.com
Then at the bottom of the page, or from the kbin menu, choose the no-entry (i.e. block) symbol which is next to the subscribe button.
Yes you have to go to kbin.social/d/exploding-heads.com and it should show up as a “magazine” then you can block it (For anyone that hasn’t done it yet)
edit: forgot .com at the end of the domain, thanks jalda
That’s the magazine on kbin. It’s not their instance. If it were federated with kbin.social it would be accessible like this: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected], but it’s not. There’s no way to see which instances are federated on kbin, so maybe it’s already gone.
The “d” in the URL actually stands for domain. It’s actually the entire instance not a magazine. It’s the correct way to block an entire instance individually as a Kbin user.
This is wrong, the reason it doesn’t load your link is because there is no community/magazine called “main” on that domain. If you go to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] instead, you will see it as normal.
Also, the user above is indeed talking about blocking the whole instance, not just one magazine. If you go to that link with /d/ it is for the whole domain.
There is a community called main on exploding-heads: https://exploding-heads.com/c/main
Perchance. But I’m pretty sure blocking /d/exploding-heads won’t hurt anyone.
you have to add the .com at the end of the domain name
Oh true I forgot that wait
One thing worth mentioning is that this only blocks the threads. You’ll still see users if they hop into a thread on an instance you haven’t blocked.
Tested this by temporarily blocking lemmy-world and checking some redditmigration (a kbin magazine) threads. The users on lemmy-world will still show even if it’s blocked.
Since you can see their users’ posts I think it means they aren’t defederated yet, I think ernest is a bit overwhelmed at the moment to deal with stuff like this but it should be brought up, sooner better than later.
It’s been brought up and is on his radar it seems. Until he can address it kbin does at least have the ability for users to individually block instances.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/103709/Antiwoke-magazin-on-kbin-social-posting-bullshit-like-how-to-end#entry-comment-420377
@hypelightfly
Yes, but to block an instance as a user doesn’t offer the same level of protection that to defederate the instance. If a user blocks an instance, she/he doesn’t see the posts coming from this instance in her/his thread. But the user cannot avoid being seen from the blocked instance and potentially being harassed.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/375
@lwadmin @genoxidedev1 @Ragnell @Kaldo
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Thank you for linking that. I’d seen the original thread before he’d had a chance to reply. Even with help, I worry about his workload, but I’m always grateful to have such an open and dedicated admin
I think I’ll go ahead and find and block them, thanks. Both of you.
This response is really great. Part of the reason I stuck with Kbin was Ernest
wouldn’t you have had to subscribe to one of their communities to see those posts? If that’s true, your observation isn’t evidence they are deferderated and you may still be seeing their users comments on other posts.
Point. None of their posts are getting to the front page.
I saw one once but I cannot remember if it was kbin.social or lemmy.world because I have tried both.