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Is lemmy.world federated with bad instances? (cw: nsfl) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw talk of them being federated with instances like "exploding heads" (literal neo-nazis) and "posting lolis rocks", along with having interactions from users there. Is that true? idk how to check for that, I can only just barely stumble around the normal forum interface.

If so, why? They've been going hard on purging communists user-by-user and comment-by-comment, which seems like a little bit of a secondary concern to nazis and pedos, especially something as simple as just blocking the instances at the very least. What's going on over there?

What I mentioned, if it is correct, might not be exhaustive, I'm just repeating what I heard about.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Isn't there a way for individual users to completely hide an instance from their feed? Because I would just do that if it bothers you.

I'm not saying that some posts/instances aren't unethical, objectively incorrect, and/or dangerous, but widespread censorship is a slippery slope. If you want what you're able to see to be heavily controlled, there are probably other instances with that purpose. An instance that describes itself as general-purpose and for everyone probably isn't the place for that, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Blocking and unblocking should be normal, expected, easily discoverable, and openly discussed. There are a lot of people on the Internet; a nonzero number of them are frothing assholes; and frothing assholes are quite capable of running servers.

The whole system we're on here is still new and in rapid flux. Expect change. This isn't Reddit with admins saying for years that hosting /r/jailbait is essential to free speech. It takes time to develop agreeable responses to kinds of trouble this system hasn't yet seen.