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lwadmin Jun 28, 2023

Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads

Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads - Lemmy.world

Today, we want to inform everyone that we have decided to defederate from https://exploding-heads.com/ [https://exploding-heads.com/]. We understand that defederating should always be a last resort, and individuals can certainly block communities. However, blocking alone does not prevent potential harm to vulnerable communities. After carefully reviewing the instance, reported posts, and multiple comments from the community, we have concluded that exploding-heads is not adhering to the Lemmy or Citizen Code of Conduct. Therefore, we cannot, in good faith, continue to federate with an instance that consistently promotes hate, racism, and bullying. Examples: https://lemmy.world/post/577526 [https://lemmy.world/post/577526] - Community Moderator Harassment https://exploding-heads.com/post/92194 [https://exploding-heads.com/post/92194] - Systemadmin Post https://exploding-heads.com/post/90780 [https://exploding-heads.com/post/90780] - Systemadmin Post https://exploding-heads.com/post/91488 [https://exploding-heads.com/post/91488] - Systemadmin Post https://exploding-heads.com/post/93725 [https://exploding-heads.com/post/93725] - Community Moderator Post Again, deciding to defederate from an instance is not taken lightly. In the future, we will continue to review instances on a case-by-case bases. As for our community, please refrain from posting or commenting with hateful words as well. Arguing back and calling people names is not the solution. The best course of action is to report the posts or comments violating our server rules. Lemmy Code of Conduct https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html [https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html] Citizen Code of Conduct https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md [https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md] “We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.”

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realcaseyrollins

Huh. Those posts actually don't seem too bad. I actually am a user over there, and seen some actual racism there from time to time.

I'm always not happy whenever a free speech instance gets blocked, but as was the case with Poast, I can't be too mad about it if the users are participating in racism.

I was hoping to change the culture over there but I'm just too busy IRL to change the overall tenor of that instance on my own.

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tenet Jun 28, 2023

"I totally don't like the racist server full of racists but I'm too much of a fucking chud myself to lift a finger to change anything or not frequent the server with the racists."

That's you. That's what you actually wrote, minus syntactic sugar.

Reevaluate your life.

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realcaseyrollins Jun 28, 2023

If there's an instance or group that has racists in it, there are two things that can be done;

You can join that instance, diluting the racist content on the site, if not pushing back against it, preventing the racists from posting racist stuff without being challenged

You can leave/ignore the community, effectively allowing the instance to continue being racist

I try not to participate in the second option, because that's how things like /pol/ came to be the way they are today. And again I have a life, but if I didn't, I'd spend more time pushing back against the racism (which seems pretty rare cuz the only time I came across it was in one post where someone was posting reasons to defederate from the instance; they were a bit worse than what's included here, but I never saw that content in any of my feeds).

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magnetosphere Jun 28, 2023

This may not be true in your particular case, but A LOT of assholes think that “free speech” is a license to be deliberately ignorant and hateful, while facing zero consequences.

By trying to rebrand hate speech as “free speech”, they’re ignoring other fundamental principles of society. The US Constitution, most religions, and numerous laws can be boiled down to one guideline: don’t be a dick.

Dropping n-bombs with impunity is NOT what free speech was intended to be used for. It was meant to protect those who criticized the government or needed religious freedom, and is supposed to prevent the government from retaliating against them. In short, free speech was intended to make people more tolerant, not less.

Don’t put up with closed-minded assholes because they “don’t seem too bad”. Racism is NOT something you want to desensitize yourself to. Ditch them and don’t go back.