Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

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.”

Please don't defederate just like that. Defederation tells your users that we are not smart enough to make our decisions, and that we need the admins to make the decisions for us. I assure you that is not the case. We can block users or communities that we see problems with.

I don't want to hang with neo-nazi's. Please defederate from these asshole servers or you will turn into voat and all the non-assholes will leave. So, the opposite of what this girl is saying.

This is the typical omg freeze peaches! line we have all seen a million times before. I don't actually give a single shit about free speech. I just want a nazi free space to talk about various shit. Be voat if you want, but all the normal people will leave.

Just block them yourself. No need to force the defederation on everybody. I want to know what they are up to. And I want to argue with them whenever I want to.

Defederating from them is the same moral high ground shit we saw on Reddit. Furthermore defederating for laughable reasons (and the examples provided are weak af) is just further damaging the fediverse.

No, I demand that the websites I use don't host neo-nazi content. I guess you're ok with that garbage.

I agree, Exploding heads admin admits they allow racism, which is actually illegal, so no question they should be defederated, even if it was just for legal matters.

I have no idea why this is downvoted? Maybe people don't know it's true?

https://exploding-heads.com/post/159228?scrollToComments=true

@Wigglehard: (admin)

certain levels of racism and offensive material is allowed

Racism is an ideology. An ideology is located in the minds of people. You cannot forbid people to think in a way that does not correlate with your ideas. Discrimination on the other hand (which is often based in an ideology) is illegal in most western countries.
No, racism is simply tribal behavior gone wrong, and racism IS discrimination, it's just one form of it.
However you see racism. The world would be a lot more boring without it. Racism is such a great topic to discuss. I myself am not racist. But I enjoy the discussions. Sometimes I am taking the standpoint of a racist, just to keep a discussion going.
I don't think minorities see it that way.
Minority is also an interesting term. In Asia I would be considered a minority. And in Africa I would be become a minority as well.

I'm guessing you are white, as am I btw, and we wouldn't just be considered a minority, we would actually belong to a minority in those places.

So in those places, protection of minorities would actually protect us against discrimination.

But generally whites in those areas are richer than average, and if you are rich, you don't need as much protection against racism.

Tell that the rich Jews. Hated by fascists and communists alike.