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Is lemmy.world federated with bad instances? (cw: nsfl) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw talk of them being federated with instances like "exploding heads" (literal neo-nazis) and "posting lolis rocks", along with having interactions from users there. Is that true? idk how to check for that, I can only just barely stumble around the normal forum interface.

If so, why? They've been going hard on purging communists user-by-user and comment-by-comment, which seems like a little bit of a secondary concern to nazis and pedos, especially something as simple as just blocking the instances at the very least. What's going on over there?

What I mentioned, if it is correct, might not be exhaustive, I'm just repeating what I heard about.

Edit: Correction, exploding heads are closer to being latter-day blue checks, complete garbage but not as pressingly bad as the other site.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Isn't there a way for individual users to completely hide an instance from their feed? Because I would just do that if it bothers you.

I'm not saying that some posts/instances aren't unethical, objectively incorrect, and/or dangerous, but widespread censorship is a slippery slope. If you want what you're able to see to be heavily controlled, there are probably other instances with that purpose. An instance that describes itself as general-purpose and for everyone probably isn't the place for that, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Censoring literal, open Nazis and pedos is perfectly fine by me, thank you very much. I don't think there's any "slippery slope" involved other than the risks of allowing such people free rein in open spaces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Keyword literal.

But nowadays people like to call Nazis other people that don't agree with me and pedos weebs that like hs anime characters

So I agree with you if anything illegal is going on.

Are the Nazis advocating for violence and genocide and pedos distributing CP? sure block them and report them to the authorities.

But I don't care for fictional characters that doesn't even resemble real life humans.

Hot take I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nazism, by its very nature, advocates for violence and bigotry. There are a lot of abhorrent viewpoints that are despicable before they become illegal.

Fuck them and fuck their claims and wanting free speech. That’s not even something they actually believe in.

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