Lemmy.world still discussing if they want to defederate from an instance taken over by exploding-heads.
An instance that includes such gems as
CW Transphobia, Homophobia
Strange pattern emerging from lemmy.world with an admin advertising their business in the adhd community, allowing virulently Islamophobic atheistmemes community and now repeating the exploding-heads (we have to patiently discuss blocking the instance) course of action instead of a preemptive defederation, it is their last resort though.
The post on lemmy.world discussing it as well: https://lemmy.world/post/2680147
As of this post the blocked instances are here
spoiler
Reading those comments makes me realize what a special place we have here.
I wonder if we were to do another people be more trepidatious maybe? Just given how weird things have gotten around here recently (imo) and how much the inter-instance drama has already become so prevalent of a topic. And we haven’t even federated yet!
There are valid reasons to federate, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried about some of the potential ways it could change this community.
Eww.
Yes, de-federate.
So what’s the deal with exploding heads? I was familiar with it a year ago and dismissed it because it had nothing except thousands of news posts by the admin. And that wasn’t just one glance, that’s all it was for a while, and basically the only place that federated with it died before the big reddit exodus.
Did it actually get an audience of anti-vaxxers and become non-trivial?
I don’t understand? What more do you want? They have always been nazis who are smart enough to try and barely hide their “power level”.
“They’re literally calling us Nazis because we want to do the thing the Nazis did to the people the Nazis did it to! To protect children!”
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