I’m writing this post to inform you all that I have decided to defederate from the exploding-heads[.]com instance.
After carefully reviewing the instance, reported posts, and comments from our community, content on exploding-heads is clearly mostly—if not completely—in violation of our instance rules, including content posted by the instance admin themselves (a large factor in the decision to defederate any instance).
On other fediverse platforms I run, such as Mastodon, I would typically respond by “Limiting” such instances, since the main goal is to avoid the publishing and promotion of such topics on our public (“All”) timelines, rather than control what you can or cannot access. Unfortunately, Lemmy does not yet offer the fine-grained moderation controls to make this possible, so complete defederation is our only option to avoid the re-publishing of content which is consistently hateful and discriminatory.
Defederation from other Lemmy instances is not taken lightly, and in the future I will continue to review instances on a case by case basis.
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Any plans to add Hexbear to the list? I’ve noticed over the last few days a lot of these members posting nothing but Nazi/racist gifs/images into random comment sections.
Alternatively, anyone know how to block an instance yourself?
Lol thank god. “Free speech” instances are absolute cancer.
I said this in the hexbear threads, freedom of speech on your part does not constitute an obligation to listen on my part.
Not only that, but if you’re gonna exercise your free speech in a way that’s obnoxious, don’t be surprised when it’s reciprocated.
It’s never about Free Speech either. It’s almost always about the ability to post racist, bigoted, shit ass content with 0 repercussions.
I am a huge proponent of free speech - as in, I don’t think it’s appropriate for any government to tell you what you’re allowed and not allowed to say.
I am also a huge proponent of helping people find out when they fuck around and abuse that right while expecting zero consequences.
#MakeNazisAfraidAgain
It’s important to note that most people that scream about freedom of speech are actually wanting freedom from consequences for shit behavior. You can have a freedom of speech instance that promotes civility and educated discourse and I’m here for it. If your idea of free speech is that you have the right to scream at other people, act hatefully and abusively, and cram your ideas down other people’s throats, you’re just an idiot.
I think /r/asktrumpsupporters was a great example of this. You can take people of hugely different backgrounds and beliefs and have civil discourse. Any other site or instance just claiming ‘muh free speech’ is likely full of shit and has a tainted foundation.
Excellent. This is the system working as designed. They can say whatever rancid shit they want and anyone who wants to partake of that can go do it over there, but we don’t have to act as a broadcasting relay for them.
Thanks jonah, especially for listening to the instance users and taking a neutral and critical stand.
Also, consider the Threads defederation thing if it will happen.
