IDK about other people but it makes me feel sick to the stomach being federated with such content. I don’t really have any problems with Lemm.ee as a whole but I feel like having an uncritical Nazi salute on the network goes against everything Blahaj stands for.
Thanks. My concern is being federated with such a community in the first place. It is a shame there isn’t a community-wide way to block just one community from an instance.
I can do that. The fact the mods left it up for so long is reason enough
Does that mean i have to find a new instance? I thought our admins were good
She is only blocking the community, not the instance
I don’t know whether the admins are aware of it. If a mod rejected the report, the admins wouldn’t even see it. Might be an idea to ask them?
The admins of lemm.ee are well aware of that community. From what I understand they choose to allow mods to run their communities how they see fit and rarely decide to interfere with them. Doesn’t seem great, seems like a system that’ll let shit like this happen over and over in the future.
It was the nazi salute specifically that I was referring to
Oh
Watching the naive optimism of mods/admins who believe that “open spaces” will “sort themselves out” has become frustrating.
You can’t be a “bastion of free speech” or hold a philosophy of “everyone is welcome to the table” unless you want your communities high jacked. Bad actors are bad actors and no amount of positivity or rule prescription will stop them. And never, ever underestimate how much damage just 3-5 people can do. Hell just 1 person.
Bans and defederation exist for a reason. Use them, folks.
I agree, and I personally would not hold it against the lemmy.blahaj.zone admins if they chose to defederate lemm.ee on that basis. Admins need to stand up and be willing to “interfere” with communities to uphold order and standards or the instance becomes a toxic cesspit very quickly.
If blåhaj defederates, do I need to make another account to see content? I’m still a bit green on the Federation part and I would hate to lose that instance in my feed
I’m not entirely sure, I’ve heard that defederation breaks subscriptions and stops new content from flowing in, but I’ve also heard that it only stops content from flowing in from the server they’re blocking. It’s hard to say. I would definitely recommend creating an account there though if you’re intio those communities or queer content in general. I’m still thinking of doing it myself soon, just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Fun fact: That community’s founder was banned from .world for spreading csam.
That fact isn’t very fun.