The Fediverse seems thrilled with Jews leaving the platform through continued widespread antisemitism.
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I think the answer to what to do if you're a smaller instance is hard, which actually points to a flaw in the Fediverse design, which is that the larger your instance is, the more unacceptable the behavior it can perform and still be "too big to fail".
I'll come back to your question, but let me explain what I mean first.
Let's say you're a small/medium size instance, not a boutique 10 person instance, but a 200-1000 person instance, and you're really upset with the way that a huge instance is behaving, one with 50k users.
You can't really choose to de-federate from it, because if you did that, then your users would suddenly be unable to communicate with friends, popular accounts, etc.
The power differential is too big, so nothing bad happens to the large instance.
Now let's bring that back to your question...
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The issue I see is that instances by in large don't treat antisemitism seriously, and the only way to excerpt control over that would be to "hurt them" by de-fedderating from them. That's the only serious moderation measure other sites have.
But the problem is that this needs to happen by such a large number of sites that it's going to really be felt by the larger instance, and what we on Babka Social see is precisely the opposite, that many sites are explicitly antisemitic, or they take a "hands off" approach, or whatever.
This models the issue in real life which we're seeing.
So the answer is if you're a small instance, take antisemitism on your server seriously, and if someone complains, take that seriously.
Maybe we need a collaboration on antisemitism, since the safety groups on the Fediverse now have either not addressed it, or are openly antisemitic themselves.
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