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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago

That's exactly what it means.

[–] Corkyskog 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] jscummy 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gotta say, Lemmy is both way more active and way better curated so far then other Voat or any of the other Reddit clones

[–] can 3 points 2 years ago

Because now regular people actually have a reason to leave.

[–] sneakyninjapants 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You are indeed resurrecting a 3 year old post haha!

Glad to see so many of you here now though!

[–] epyon22 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just happened on sh.itjust.works and we booted them https://sh.itjust.works/post/381489

[–] sneakyninjapants 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] can 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's suddenly relevant again lol

[–] Artemis 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really like that this is a thing here. β€˜Active’ is a really functional sort method

[–] can 1 points 2 years ago

I still recommend top>day or similar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the Hot sorting seems to be made of chewing gum and twigs, probably best to switch to top per day until they fix it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I sure hope you’re right.

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

Wdym it's not as monolithic here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Meaning different communities can set up their own Lemmy servers and they don't necessarily have to be part of the same federated network, in case there are unresolvable conflicts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Sure, let them. We can defederate if necessary. It’s the system working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing. However, some large instances could belikely to defederate whatever instance they sign up on and it could become a liability. You could also choose to defederate or block them yourself I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Defederation. Just don't join or federate with instances that allow hateful communities to thrive and it will be fine.