This isn’t about defederating it’s about misinformation communities being hosted on this instance.
Comment on Does this instance have a stance on right wing disinformation communities?
rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The admin here takes a conservative stance on defederation. He doesn’t do it unless there are lemm.ee rules violations or network abuse. I haven’t looked at any explodingheads content, but if does not violate any lemm.ee rules and presents no network abuse it will probably not get defederated.
I agree with the lemm.ee’s admin philosophy on defederation and that’s one of the reasons this is my home instance. In general you can’t call for defederation just because you don’t agree with content. If it’s blatantly offensive then I suppose that would be valid grounds, but I would hope that reason is used sparingly. I mean discussion that’s offensive to you may not be offensive to me.
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 11 months ago
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]dmention7@lemm.ee 11 months ago
From a practical perspective: it’s much easier to choose not to see content from an entire instance I’ve deemed unhelpful or harmful than it is to play whackamole with communities popping up on my home instance.
It’s the difference between my preferred news outlet broadcasting garbage vs a different channel.
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that sounds like this is about convenience then. I’m all for convenience, but completely removing content for everyone on a general-purpose instance because someone thinks it is harmful is not ok. That is suddenly declaring your opinion as everyone else’s absolute truth. Saying “you should not see that” is great. Saying “you can never see that” is censorship, and in this case it would be censorship based on a certain opinion.
I propose Lemmy adds the ability for users to label communities and posts when they create them with a content tag of some sort. Users could also suggest adding or removing a label from posts or communities as they browse. This would make content more refine-able and searchable for users/admins and give us each the ability to limit certain types of content we don’t want to see. It would also help solve the NSFW label issue where someone is okay with gore but not with nudity.
argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Calling to institute a brutal theocratic dictatorship and genocide all LGBT+ people is blatantly offensive.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So in other words, it’s been taken over by right-wingers. 🤦 Wasted my time again.
Razp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not everything you disagree with is right wing. You sound like an American lol FYI this server owner is Estonian, one of the most liberal countries in the EU.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]Razp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You gave me so many labels, that’s Insane. You don’t event know me. And you most definitely don’t get to tell me where to go and what to do.
Your post is a prime example of what’s wrong with the extremists on both sides. You are no better than a nazi you are accusing me of being.
You need therapy.
Also I am a leftist. I would say a classic liberal.
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
And everyone knowd if a country is liberal it can’t have any conservatives in it /s
Razp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And? Is there something wrong with anyone not having US-style far left neo-liberal views? I don’t get your point
Venomnik0@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you want to create an eco chamber for yourself, you could’ve just said so.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well, if you wanted to take over left spaces and deny them the ability to have a community of their own so you can more easily kill them off, you should have said so
Venomnik0@lemm.ee 11 months ago
you Implying that I’m a “conservative” just because i disagree isn’t a good way to start your point. Second of all, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to create a space (as long as they respect that space) where anyone can discuss and formulate and share their own opinions without being persecuted. That goes for any side even conservatives. Its a good way to prevent an us vs. them mentality (which is what you’re doing by the way) and allows us to prevent hate and misinformation from spreading from their own circles to us.
Bongles@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well that’s an overreaction. That vaccines community mentioned here sounds stupid but to say this entire instance has been taken over by right wingers because of one nut job? Is that really what you’re saying?
Asthmatic_Goose@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s hosted on this instance: lemm.ee/c/vaccines
“All reports calling post here missinformation will be ignored unless the post says that covid vaccines are healthy. Which is dangerous missinformation because covid vaccines kill.”
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Given that even twitter is full of that these days, is a Lemmy community the end of the world? Idiots are going to keep believing their stupid beliefs.
dmention7@lemm.ee 11 months ago
End of the world? No.
By the same token, a few bugs in my house is not the end of the world, but I’d still prefer to have screens on the window and keep a flyswatter handy 😉
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The “bugs” you’re referring to are actual people, and “your house” is my house too. We are both anonymous users on a general purpose instance shared with ~15k other people. If you start removing people from our house, and I don’t want you to remove those people, I think it’s fair to have a good-faith conversation about this.
How do you suggest determining whether or not something is considered disinformation?
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !vaccines@lemm.ee