TO THE ADMINS: Read this thread and give me one good reason why federating with toxic, propaganda spreading tankie loons is a good idea.
No one wants those fucks, or the alt right dipshits for that matter, around, and they’re spreading blatant lies, yet I see they are here. Does lemm.ee only care about boosting its numbers and is willing to sink to new lows to do it, I wonder? 🤔
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For the time being, I have no plans to change our federation policy. I realize this is not what you want to hear, and I’m sorry to disappoint you. It’s just not a goal for lemm.ee to curate external instances for now.
There are probably many of instances out there that have horrible content (content which would get users banned if they posted it on lemm.ee), but vetting instances and maintaining a defederation list is a big effort, and I believe this effort is much better spent elsewhere.
I’ve stated this in many other similar threads, but let me also reiterate here: the above should not be taken to mean that lemm.ee is some bastion of free speech. Users or communities breaking rules on lemm.ee are dealt with. Also, we do reserve the right to defederate any instance which starts causing problems for lemm.ee on a bigger scale (so in cases where banning individual users is not effective).
I realize this is a topic where it’s impossible to make everybody happy, because each person has their own view on what should be federated or defederated. At the end of the day, for anything that’s not illegal or directly hurting lemm.ee, I believe it’s best to leave these decisions up to users - you can make your own choices with which users and communities you block, and I’m certain that soon you’ll have the tools built in to Lemmy itself to make the same decision on an instance level as well. And if that doesn’t work for you, then there’s always the possibility of joining a different instance with a different approach to federation.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 year ago
🤦 Wasted my time and effort on a garbage instance again.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why don’t you just start your own? You can defederate any instance you want.
I’m on lemm.ee but I’ve personally blocked communities I’ve found to be toxic, some of them were on lemmygrad. I see very little tankie shit. Took me like 5 minutes.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bye
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Please don’t go, lemmy.ee won’t survive without you!
PizzaDeposit@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Based
misk@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But defederating Threads was fine lol.
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The approach to federation with Facebook is documented here: lemm.ee/post/851217
Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks for this attitude. Let’s me know I’m on the right instance. I want to be able to choose who I block, and I don’t want someone else choosing that for me.
Spzi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For the record, I changed my opinion regarding hexbear. While I generally very much appreciate the open federation policy, I think users from that instance overwhelmingly deteriorate the culture in comment sections. Appreciable individual exceptions exist.