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

It gives me hope for the future of beehaw refederating with that instance. They host some interesting communities. To be clear, I fully support beehaw defederating, it’s just heartwarming to see instance admins do things that move things forward

  • DarkWasp@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    3 years ago

    This was the right call. I’d never been there before and just checked out the announcement post and it’s full of hatred, insults and bile towards this decision. Their users are calling this a “far left instance that hates free speech run by politically correct pussies”. What a nasty community.

  • LemmyAtem@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    3 years ago

    It does seem like .world is trying to corral itself and curb the issues that flared up from their growth, so that’s very promising. Meanwhile, shit just works is still an absolute dumpster fire.

  • Papamousse@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    3 years ago

    And it’s good, I browsed a little bit the linked comments and their posts, and it’s a reason I joined beehaw at first… no extremists, fascists, racists, etc.

    I hope also one day beehaw federate again with LW, I had to create an account on LW because they have good communities too.

  • Master@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    sh.itjust.works also killed their c/thedonald community. Both of those instances are doing pretty good self moderating and preventing hate. Still dont need to refederate until the tool set gets better but I have accounts on both now and read them as much or more than beehaw.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      3 years ago

      Well, they still federate with exploding-heads… I don’t know if I’d say they’re doing good at preventing hate, it kinda feels like there was just a lot of pressure to kill c/thedonald.

      • Dee@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        It’s still a step in the right direction at least, but yeah, if they don’t defederate from that instance it kind of says a lot about their attitudes. I was trying to be optimistic that them removing that community might signal that they’re going to defederate from that instance next.

        • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          The latest comments I saw from the admin was that they would defederate from instances with hate speech and bigotry (https://sh.itjust.works/comment/476848) but yet there’s been no action so while I want to be optimistic, it’s a bit hard. Their community already had a discussion about it and it seemed positive that they should defed but no action (https://sh.itjust.works/post/151703).

          Hopefully .World defeding will push them to act.

          • Dee@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 years ago

            I hope so too, but at least there’s always Beehaw 🐝🤠

            Honestly I’d rather refederate with .world before them anyway, at least .world seems to be trying to keep on top of this stuff despite their massive user growth. Looking forward to updated versions of Lemmy where that more granular moderation control is available.

  • HeapOfDogs@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Off Topic. I wish we had a link to the beehaw version of this thread so i could comment on it.

        • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          After this and hopefully more positive decisions, and Lemmy itself getting better mod tools in time, hopefully we’ll refederate with them. But as other comments from this thread show, the other one might be a lost case.