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 like that your examples are a long-repeated “call” for freeing a guy directly involved with attempts to interfere in US elections, and an idiot anti-vaxxer being pushed by rightwingers as a democrat candidate.
I do suppose that some could view exposing wide spread corruption, human rights abuses and war crimes as interference.
Regarding the latter, surely the focus was on decriminalizing cannabis. I personally find that laudable for any political candidate, no matter where in the world they are located, geographically or on the political spectrum.
It just be so hard going through life not being able to read or think critically
My focal point is the content linked, as in RFK Jr. calling for decriminalization of cannabis. I understand that @TheRealNeenja focuses on him being an undesirable or whatever, but I don’t see how that matters in the slightest. I’ve already stated that my interest was in the part about decriminalizing cannabis.
As for the part about interference in US elections, don’t worry. I can’t vote, and I don’t much care about US politics. Not more than keeping up with it in order to know what’ll get exported to the world soon enough. I’d rather see decriminalization of cannabis being exported than the usual identity politics and authoritarian censorship in the name of security, but hey, that’s my preferences.
Yeah ok. You just want to ignore all the shitty stuff because you’d prefer to talk about cannabis because that’s an easier narrative to defend. You’re not fooling anyone here