That entire instance is infested with a massive amount of right-wing hate, transphobia, homophobia, and ugly political vitriol under the guise of “allowing free speech”, rising to the same level or worse than lemmygrad (which we have already defederated from for obvious reasons). Please get this garbage off of the “all” page given that the entire instance actively breaks the rules of lemmy.one and is only providing them with a larger platform. I think a few trolls may have already spilled over.
just take a 20 second scroll through this mess or any of the other communities there: https://lemmy.one/c/dankmemes@exploding-heads.com
Just block it, or go to Threads if you enjoy a sterile environment
I don’t understand why you were downvoted. Lemmy gives us all the tools we need to block communities and users we don’t want to see. Is that not good enough? Do they want to control the experience for everyone else as well? Bunch of authoritarians in here.
Lemmy also gives you the possibility to set up your own instance and choose your own rules and who you federate with…
Exactly. If OP wants to defederated, they should go and set up their own instance. Why are they trying to control the experience for everyone else?
Exactly this. People have the tools and abilities to block these communities and domains if they don’t want to see that content. Pulling out the de-federation ban-hammer whenever you personally aren’t keen on the content isn’t a reasonable solution.
They have 26 downvotes. You have two. You don’t see them because your instance doesn’t let you see them. We can see them from other instances.
All the downvotes to this comment are ridiculous. Everyone on this site has the ability to block any instance they want. Want “X” instance off your front page? Guess what, you can do that with the click of a button.
That’s not a feature. If you want to block an entire instance, you have to appeal to an admin to defederate, or you have to run your own instance and add them to your blacklist
Or you just block any communities from the instance you don’t like. It’s slightly less convenient than one button for the whole instance, but it does the same thing.
I suggest not. All the offensive stuff is in dank memes, dank taco and maybe the Donald. I suggest people block those communities
Imagine if people just blocked communities or people they didn’t like; seems like the logical solution. I personally enjoy content here and I’m sure both our users check out various communities in both instances. If you guys say opened an anti christianity community or a pro communism community (which would be communities many liberals might like) i would personally block it because i don’t want to see those Things. Our policy is we allow offensive material and if people don’t like it, it is on the user to block the person or community that they don’t want to see. We don’t ban accounts, unless it breaks United States law or violates the patriot act. If anyone needs help blocking a community or a person, please send me a direct message and I will assist you.
Sincerely; Sir Wiggle Hard
The big advantage of federation is that shit instances can be removed. It’s one of the big selling points. If an instance wants to allow hateful trash they do so at the risk of being cut off.
Fair point, however blocking people or communities is far easier and also you wont lose people who want to see our both instances content. I Understand the struggle of wanting to appease people but understand that our position on speech is what it is. Until next time have a great weekend.
Edit: blocking dank memes, dank microwave taco would eliminate most controversial material posted on our instance
The “free speech even if you don’t like it” shtick is very romantic and reasonable sounding, but it ignores how extremism spreads and escalates.
The far-right have spent a lot of time and money figuring out how to best spread their shitty ideology and have learned what every other cult has – the softest targets are the disillusioned, the deeply mentally ill, the idiots and the kids.
They share stories about how they became radicalised and they all read much the same – they read the memes, dipped a toe into the “alt-light” and then let upvotes and algorithms funnel them into mask off Nazism, cheering on domestic terrorists.
I dont know (nor care) if you’re platforming them because you’re ignorant of how it works or because you know exactly how it works but I won’t be a part of any instance that tolerates scumbags like that.
Your argument may as well be “maybe the children should decide if they want to be groomed and molested, instead of parents and police deciding for them”.
If they want to see both instances they can create an account on both instances and follow the instances rules.
You can mod however you choose. Other people don’t have to give a shit or listen to it.
Honestly; running your community that way violates the Lemmy Code of Conduct, which a large number of instances choose to adhere to, as well as the more general template version; the Citizen Code of Conduct.
Therefore you can expect many, many instances to quickly defederate you if you do not take steps to ensure your communities do not spill over or propagate hateful content. I think this instance is not quite as itchy on the defederation button; but even I would support your instance being defederated simply because you evidently choose not to moderate “anything offensive at all”.
It’s only a matter of time before the trolls and edgelords you hope to attract to your community will test the limits and post truly illegal things.
Code of conduct: imo rules carefully written so that some guy could have feel good points in his illustrious career of sjw field work
Also….
simply because you evidently choose not to moderate “anything offensive at all”.
It’s only a matter of time before the trolls and edgelords you hope to attract to your community will test the limits and post truly illegal things.
Not true, we dont allow spam posting of hate (example given guy posts nszi flag five times, guy posts whitey is devil five times) pedophile crap, calls for violence and any breaking usa law or violations of the patriot act
In a wirld where what is acceptable speech changes at the speed of light, don’t be shocked when your account Gets banned cz bar of what makes ppl butt hurt gets raised.
Also…
As i said before, we have several communities, only two perhaps three hold offensive material, easy to block however rage addicts and political ideologues on alt accounts go around giving sjw speeches on what to defederate from, it’s pathetic and quite frankly all of you would benefit from thicker skin, life is going to kick the living shit out of you
Your response only shows how unconcerned of an admin you are. If you wanted to prove your opponents are reactionaries; you definitely shouldn’t be accusing them of being trolls on alts or calling them out as pathetic or as ideologues. Your response only lends strength to those calling for your instances’ defederation.
These are just extreme examples but… 5 different nazi memes, each with their own uniquely embedded/hidden swastikas is still spamming hate. 5 different unique nazi dogwhistles is still spammed hate. 5 different calls for laws to be passed that don’t in and of themselves call for legalized murder of trans people; but result in the murders of trans people to go unpunished; is in of itself, spammed hate.
Just block it, or go to Threads if you enjoy a sterile environment
That’s such a simple view of how it goes. The bigoted user’s go over to communities I run and harass my members.
In the same way they harass members of non-exploding heads communities. They can go be bigoted in their bubble but I do not want them here.
I am glad Lemmy.Worlds defederated from them. Good riddance.
Yeah, the rest of the instance is a cesspool as well. Dank memes isn’t the worst of it.
