The Lemmy Club is currently suffering from "The Nazi Bar" problem. All of their top communities are run by three right-wingers as illustrated below.
The Lemmy Club instance admin doesn't seem to want to ban them, for the reasons mentioned below:
This vote is on whether or not we should defederate from this instance until they address their Nazi Bar problem.
Upvote = for defederation. Downvote = against defederation.
Edit: As others have mentioned, happy to treat this a only a temporary measure until the problem is resolved.
Edit 2: The Lemmy Club admin has said they will implement a rule against right wing communities, and has taken action on some problematic posts and users (see original comments below).
I'm willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the admin here, as they have responded in good faith:
If you implement those changes then I’d be willing to withdraw the defederation proposal and consider the problem resolved.
Unpopular opinion, hate speech is an unfortunate but necessary part of free speech that should be defended, and regulated, in the name of free speech. Yes this can include anti semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and sexism but it also includes ability to freely criticize political groups, religions, corporations, the rich, the powerful, and lets people speak their minds without worrying about unjust retribution.
In this spirit, I say let the communities stay but keep the politically charged users from admin positions.
I feel like reddit really went to shit when free speech came under attack by aggressive Trumpers and reactionary Liberals and it escalated so much. Like I’ve gotten banned for playing devil’s advocate and politely going against the crowd just to spur smarter discussions. Censoring groups for opinions is a slippery slope that promotes anti intellectualism. Now people can’t even talk about Luigi.
Sure the Nazi bar problem is a problem but it’s also like, would you rather them drink where you can see them and call them out or not? They’re going to exist whether you like them or not and they won in America because they own almost all the media but like, you’re lib leaning, follow the damn art of war and learn to control, not just ban your enemy. Banning them creates more problems than it solves and just incites them to do it back however they can. It’s Karma.
Please read up on the Paradox of Tolerance.
I am painfully aware of it and am also aware that’s it’s very easy to use that specific justification to become intolerant yourself.
The best way to deal with cruel authoritarians is not to ban but to bully them into the shoes of those they hate. You can’t bully them if you ban them, they will just go elsewhere, isolate, then try to expand like they always do once they have a group they can rally.