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.
Thanks for making this post. It was great to get your side of the story.
I acknowledge I pushed pretty hard on this topic, mostly because in the related YPTB post you didn't seem very open to taking action initially. We are trying to practice open governance on this instance with direct input from the community, so I thought the best thing in this case was just to ask the community to weigh in. What is telling is that, even without providing much context other than the top communities list, the vast majority of our instance members clearly already knew it was a right wing instance judging by the voting.
But to be honest, I think your reputational concerns are mostly unfounded. The way I see it, your instance already had a bad reputation for being a right-wing instance simply because of the communities and mods that set up shop there. That's kind of how this all came about. However, the way you responded to the situation has been great, and anyone reading this post would be able to see that the problem has been dealt with, and that you seem like a genuinely nice person. That can only help your instance's reputation in the long run, I would think. And now hopefully you have a fresh start.
I'm confused by your voting system. Did these not count or does that symbol mean they don't have voting rights?
See the sidebar, specifically About voting rights and flairs. Those flairs mean those members mentioned a pirate in their application, and their votes count towards the "local community" sentiment. 100% of members with voting rights voted for defederation.
What I'm planning to do is to edit the very top of the post with a short TLDR so that anyone stumbling on the post later can see at a glance that the problem has been dealt with, and that we are not defederating from your instance. Would you be happy with that approach?