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 love the “freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend” crowd because like, of course it does, but don’t be surprised when nobody likes you because you’re being a dick to everyone.
I love that the underlying implication of “freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend” is that you presumably aren’t free to respond to things that offend you by electing to not expose yourself to it any further. Like, you apparently aren’t allowed to say “oh, that’s really gross. I don’t like that and am not going to voluntarily expose myself to it any further and when someone asks me my opinion I will indicate that I dislike it.” You have to sit there and take it. Honestly, defederating is a great choice for lemmy instances. What’s the alternative? Trying to convince whatever service a lemmy instance is hosted on to deplatform them like people did with Amazon and Parler? I think the posts linked here about exploding-heads are vile, but I don’t want them or any other instance to be subject to the whims of some kind of internet police force, and especially not to whatever service or services are used to keep them up. Just leave them in the dust and be done with it, I say.
Freedom of speech might include freedom to offend, but it doesn’t obligate anyone else to listen or let you use their soapbox.
Freedom of speech includes giving me the freedom to call them fucking idiotic bigots.
It also includes don’t engaging with people that offend you. But when you do that they claim that you are the offender