Strong moderation abilities, and instance admins like ourselves who actually ban white supremacist communities and not sit on their hands about hosting the largest one on the internet, for years.
edit: like just today, we had a few TERF communities try to set up here. It took us less than a day to ban them. Its not difficult.
That's good to hear, I've got very little idea of how the fediverse works nor how moderation works on these types of sites so thanks for clarifying. I had a look to see if c/the_donald existed and although it seems to, I could see the following:
Make America Great Again removed by mod
No Posts.
Does that mean the community has been removed by a mod then or something else?
That's exactly what it means.
Shitjustworks just voted to delist exploding heads from their instance. Beehaw is not federated with two of the largest (lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works) because they are worried about bots.
Gotta say, Lemmy is both way more active and way better curated so far then other Voat or any of the other Reddit clones
Because now regular people actually have a reason to leave.
Assuming they're generally on the same instance ::cough EH cough:: others can just defederate if they want. Those that are harassing and spreading hate speech on mixed servers can be blocked, banned from communities, or the instance in question if egregious enough.
Edit: Am I resurrecting a 3 year old post rn?
Just happened on sh.itjust.works and we booted them https://sh.itjust.works/post/381489
Oh I'm well aware lol. I'm a sh.itjust.works user as well and have been seeing the controversy that sub brought about the last few days.
You are indeed resurrecting a 3 year old post haha!
Glad to see so many of you here now though!
the Hot sorting seems to be made of chewing gum and twigs, probably best to switch to top per day until they fix it.
There are way more of us than there are of them. Let them scream impotently into the void and hear nothing come back.
Sure, maybe they will rally some numbers and try ti make noise, but ultimately they will just get bored and move on as things aren't as monolithic here in the fediverse as they are on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/etc.
I sure hope you’re right.
Sure, let them. We can defederate if necessary. It’s the system working.
Defederation. Just don't join or federate with instances that allow hateful communities to thrive and it will be fine.
Free software is free for everyone, and innocent until proven guilty.
Right wing people want to have reasonable discussion on their space? Fine. I am not forced to talk with them, but they can provide interesting contribution to the debate, we lack them on the fedi. Far right people want a platform for non moderated hate speech. (Luckily, I live in a place with hate speech laws) at the point it spreads over the fedi . I would move to an instance not federating them.
That's the cool part of the federation, just like most Masto instance do not federate with instance posting child porn, you can get rid of neo Nazi by not federating them
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