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.”
lemmy.world is just an instance. As I understand it, an instance is just a gateway to the rest of the fediverse. Its not a community that has to be protected. The argument is more like that the communities on this instance don’t provide content to the other instance, in fact isolating them.
But when I display “all” on lemmy.world - for example when I want to see trending topics and not just my own niche interests - seeing lots of hate speech or things against the code of conduct drives me away.
Maybe there should be one-way defederation? We’ll share our communities with them, but we’ll hide their communities?
You can easily decide for your self which communities you want to block. Its a bit of work but you dont have to relay on others to decide. Im not sure if a one-way defederation is better. Cutting access to our content is a fair punishment for the “evil” instance. But then again I like to decide for myself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole
I leave the parallel (and the implied futility) as an exercise for the student.
You see the irony don’t you? ;-)