Fedigrow

A single user behaving badly shouldn't be enough for a mass defederation, it should be a user ban/block not a instance censure.

When that "single user" is an admin of the instance, it tells you a lot about the instance culture, and the types of things they will action from their user base.

When the admin is actively posting transphobic content, it tells me that not only will they not moderate others who post transphpobia, but also that the instance will actively attract transphobic folk.

The thing about the fediverse is that people have options. Our instance defederates instances that fail to act on bigotry, or encourage it. So people who join this instance, do so, precisely because that's what they're looking for in a fediverse instance.

Folk who don't want that, who want to fight with bigots, or who are willing to play whack a mole and block them one by one as they pop up will join instances that don't defederate.

That's how it's meant to work.

If we did it your way, and everyone was forced to federate with everyone else, and every user had to block the bigots one by one, reactively, after stumbling across them, we would lose a large chunk of users. That might be what you want, but it's not what everyone wants. And when you take away options, and try and tell people they have to do it your way, they will simply go elsewhere.

so I started to dig into it and I haven't seen the evidence for the censures and hate.

This comment feels like its in bad faith. Earlier, you described their admin as "a single user behaving badly", and you've been provided with links to their transphobic content by several people now. Even if you don't personally see anything wrong with what the user said, it seems unlikely that you don't understand how or why other people might take issue with their anti trans commentary.

Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.

They don't actually enforce this though, just look at this user https://hilariouschaos.com/u/tahira

Nothing but links to trans hate sites, especially far-right hate site Reduxx.

Regardless of what the admin(s) may have done, a ton of their users were coming from Exploding Heads and just trolling. One of the admins didn't see a problem with the problematic users it was getting, so a bunch of instances blocked it.

AFAIK the entire instance was set up for trolling. I personally blocked it soon after creation.

Last time I looked at that instance I saw several transphobic and alt-right posts right on their frontpage.

They allow Nazi content, I messaged Alice directly about an example once and was ignored. They also allow a lot of transphobic nonsense. Only instance I ever blocked.

Both admins are problematic as are most of their users and mods.

I don’t think it should be defederated but all Lemmy users should block it.

The reason I care is because the active content creatives on the fediverse are really small, and barriers in the fediverse diminishes all of our voices.

I remember the user Alice asking a ton of really idiotic questions but I didn’t see anything that would warrant an instance block. I did block that user after several months though

I've heard a lot about this but I've never seen this once. I also mod a few comms and I've never had an issue with an HC member. Literally never.

What makes a good fediverse neighbor?

• a COC/AUP/TOS/Rules that are acceptable
• not spreading illegal content
• not spreading spam
• responsive admins

Even if a instance has people or communities that are objectionable, as long as the admins keep them honest and following the minimum good neighbor rules when they go off instance, then I would say a instance is a good neighbor

Don't get me wrong, block anyone you want to block, heck even block instances, its the public censures that just seem to be vibes that have my hackles up.

Over the last 2 years, if a instance is a consistent bad neighbor I would expect these very actively admined instances to take action.