I have to say that I have an account on Lemmy.world because I was there before I found out about Beehaw, and from what' I've seen so far they strictly enforce Ruud's rules of absolutely no rightwing bullshit. I volunteered to mod for the Reddit community and the rules I was told to focus on were: provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.

I saw someone asking around yesterday about communities that wouldn't ban them for being a bigot yesterday, and the posters told them to go to 4chan or google it themselves since it seemed they should be able to figure that out. They do have a community called Conservative, but it's only got a few hundred people in it and the mods still have to follow the rules.

It's not as curated as the content here, but it's not the fee for all that Reddit was. I think that conservatives will have a pretty bad time over there.

god fuckin damn it

that instance has the most active simpsons shit posts community

stop being fuckin stupid damn it, leave it to that exploding-heads instance

I know that beehaw defederated with sh.itjust.works, but over on my instance I saw the_donald show up and I promptly blocked the community. Why not just do that?

I have been batting around the concept of a federated algorithm that works akin to Herd Immunity

Through Consensus, communities should be able to individually choose to block a specific community, and then you can configure your community to block a community if enough of its trusted communities block it as well.

So if you have 10 trusted communities and 8/10 of those have blocked community A, then you will also block community A implicitly because you trust them.

I don't care to follow The_Donald, but I'd rather choose what communities I can participate in than have an instance decide for me.