Update: Due to overwhelming support for defederation, we will be going through with that at 12am Moscow time (approx. 8hrs from now). Thanks to everyone who provided their feedback.
It's come to our attention that the admins of europe.pub are allowing pro-genocide rhetoric and Nazi propaganda to be freely posted on their instance.
Additionally, the main perpetrator has been promoted to moderator on the Poland@europe.pub comm where they consistently post pro-ukrainian-nazi propaganda and wish death upon the Russian people.
Due to these factors and the unwillingness of europe.pub admins to act, we are holding a vote to defederate from their instance. Please comment with either an emote or yes/no to the question: should we defederate from europe.pub?
or "Yes" - Defederate
or "No" - Remain federated
Might be worth doing on our end anyway. Show a good faith effort. It's slightly performative but I think if our community shows overwhelming support for reconciliation it might put some pressure on. I mean maybe the Blahaj community hates us and we show support for it and they just laugh at us and if so, fine, but I'm usually in favor of being the bigger person and showing up first.
Or maybe our community is like fuck no and okay. Either way I think putting in the effort doesn't hurt. Although I know you're always putting in a lot of effort in a lot of places so maybe this isn't the best use of your time right now either.
Just my 2
Unfortunately we've tried many times in the past at this point, the issue isn't on our side
The past 2 or even 3 times I've called for a vote for lemmy.blahaj.zone federation it's been an overwhelming "no" but I'm always open to another!
Oh interesting. My vibe check is clearly wrong, it happens
I mentioned this elsewhere, but would there be any easy way to have limited federation? Like trans-specific comms and non-contentious stuff.
Sure but I don't think Ada wants to, another user recommended a vote so I can look at what lbz communities to remove and we can go from there
Why do we care about Ada?
Because we can't federate with lemmy blahaj zone (lbz) while she has hexbear on the blocklist. So any vote for hexbear users to federate with lbz would be symbolic
She's the sole Mod? Tf
She and her wife are the only 2 admins of that instance. Their individual communities have more mods but if the admins choose not to federate then anything we do on our end is useless