I’ve been advertising this place as a instance with a good balance of moderation
and open federation . While I’ve have seen clear lies being spread about
exploding heads I figured the lemmy world admins would have the sense to
actually investigate such claims before making rash decisions. I want to know
why it was defederated when the admins of that instance have been good about
removing hate speech. Was any attempt made to contact the admins to talk about
any potential problems?
The problem is that what I’ve heard is that Lemmy doesn’t have a moderation tool to do that. In principle I dislike defederation because I want to be able to see anything I want, but if they don’t have any less extreme options it’s understandable.
I have posted “racist” content… I am the guy who posted the article questioning the Emmett Till narrative, lol, and I know that you found that upsetting. But I have seen you talk about the real answer being to address racism, to dilute content on instances with racism, etc., and I remember when you posted at wolfballs occasionally (I was a different name there) and I did appreciate all yuor content there…
… I think what got us more into trouble is people were kind of looking to post the most extreme memes and even crosspost to other instances to get a rise out of them and it worked.
There are worse things than a racists joke. Like pedophilia. Supporting mass murders and genocides. It’s like, ban the user and move on. They could literally have banned wiggle hard and zero of his post across all his communities would federate.
Hmm. Well, that’s too bad, but I could see why racist posts would make them upset.
Splattering racism everywhere is akin to being antagonistic. Free speech is good, but don’t be shocked if people block instances with racist spam.
I respect this sentiment but I also do not believe in doing stuff to police the content that is posted that is racist in terms of deplatforming…
Removing from the front page? By all means.
The problem is that what I’ve heard is that Lemmy doesn’t have a moderation tool to do that. In principle I dislike defederation because I want to be able to see anything I want, but if they don’t have any less extreme options it’s understandable.
I haven’t seen any racism myself
You’re in the screenshot
Oh yeah lol
Racism was in the linked post, someone was making racist posts and that’s why we got blocked
Eh, imo one slightly rascist joke should not be a reason for defederation. I can screenshot all kinds of bad things from lemmy.world
I personally agree but racist content is awful. Can’t fault anyone for defederating because of it.
If this instance behaved itself a lil bit more, we wouldn’t be having these issues.
I have posted “racist” content… I am the guy who posted the article questioning the Emmett Till narrative, lol, and I know that you found that upsetting. But I have seen you talk about the real answer being to address racism, to dilute content on instances with racism, etc., and I remember when you posted at wolfballs occasionally (I was a different name there) and I did appreciate all yuor content there…
… I think what got us more into trouble is people were kind of looking to post the most extreme memes and even crosspost to other instances to get a rise out of them and it worked.
There are worse things than a racists joke. Like pedophilia. Supporting mass murders and genocides. It’s like, ban the user and move on. They could literally have banned wiggle hard and zero of his post across all his communities would federate.
I could see why they wouldn’t want to play whack-a-mole tho, if they were concerned other users would post similar content
Fair