Huge drama surrounding instances that have a major far-right presence and certain instances cutting connections (defederating), while others aren’t (staying federated).
I like how someone put it in another thread. From the “defederaters,” The argument most seen is: “if there’s a nazi at the table and you say nothing, it’s a table full of nazis.” The most common counter-argument is “it’s actually like a stadium full of people with some nazi’s in the corner jerking themselves off.” From the “federators,” the most common argument is “defederation defeats decentralization,” and the most common counter to this is simply: “fuck off nazi!”
I find the whole situation quite extraordinary to see unfold and be a part of.
What stadiums have these people been to where being a Nazi is okay? Stadium staff curate very specific atmospheres, and being a Nazi is an automatic disqualifier
Excellent example of why giant instances are bad ideas. Nazis love forcing you into a “throw the baby out with the bathwater” type choice because it means they can continue their hateful, destructive, genocidal behaviors without consequences. They’re usually not stupid, they know what they’re doing is wrong, they just want to keep getting away with it. So they’ll go nuclear on anyone and everyone in order to maintain their comfy corner of hate.
Any moderator (or stadium owner) who doesn’t give Nazis jerking off in a corner a lifetime ban is negligent, as you said.
Coming from ShitJustWorks, I never ever have seen a thread from exploding-heads. They simply do not make it into the feed. And the only reason I saw any posts from TheDonald community while it still existed was because sorting by active was broken and would randomly throw in threads with no traction whatsoever. I can get behind keeping a space hate-free. But currently, there simply is no hate being shown even on instances still federated with exploding-heads.
This is a period of explosive growth and adjustment for Lemmy, it’ll take awhile for things to settle down and for us to see what people’s true colors are. Hopefully anywhere that actually harbors hateful or troll content will be marginalized and the mainstream instances will be properly moderated, but it’ll be a continual battle since such people always want to find new ways to spread awfulness. If we’re lucky, instances that have good track records will federate with each other. If not, people can vote with their feet.
I agree, it’s not something to throw around lightly. I might be misinterpreting your message, but I don’t believe I called all the users of an instance nazis (in this case, I guess we’d be taking about sh.it.just.works). I realise in a comment lower in the thread, they say “defederating from exploding heads”, but that’s not exactly correct because that’s a community, not an instance. I am not calling all sh.it.just.works users nazis, and I’m not calling all exploding heads users nazis either. It’s just that that sort of community tends to attract some nazis, so I would say that exploding heads would attract and retain a higher number of nazis than other communities.
What I did say, regarding the stadium metaphor, is that instead of having a stadium with a comfy corner of hate for nazis (a community in an instance that facilitates such people and behaviour, which could seep into the rest of the instance and other instances), if you defederate, it would make the whole stadium more comfortable because there isn’t a corner with nazis (which would make it more inviting for other people to visit. Who would want to visit a stadium with a corner for nazis?). It would mean that the non-nazi people of that instance would also be moved to their own stadium with the small group of nazis, but they are free to create an account on another instance if they want to move. That’s the power of Lemmy; you can find an instance that aligns with your values and join that.
Okay the more I write in this stadium metaphor the more I realise it’s harder to make it make sense haha, I hope this makes some sense
Stop running away from Nazi. Most of them are just trolls with a Nazi facemask to scare a reaction out of you. Don’t cede power to them by acting as if their are dangerous. They are clowns, clown them.
They tried to overthrow the federal government last election and are responsible for countless hate crimes and fomenting prejudice and violence against marginalized people, including supporting new fascist laws in the past few years. They are dangerous, their ideology is dangerous, and their speech is used as a weapon to harm people. I’m not running away, I’m saying any “stadium” owner can and should be expected to ban such assholes from the premises. As the saying goes, if a bar owner lets Nazis congregate in the corner of their bar, it’s a Nazi bar. “Not all Germans” physically committed a genocide, but all of them tolerated or endorsed Nazism to the point of allowing it to happen. When good people see evil rising, they get involved and disrupt it, they don’t stay quiet and let it grow.
Nah this is not how moderation works on the fediverse. If you defederate from Nazi instances, Nazis have an incentive to go to those instances instead of yours - namely because they can’t interact with Nazi content. They can still harass your users of course, but they can’t build a platform and get banned quickly. So on the Fediverse you end up with a lot of Nazis on only a few servers, and everyone just bans those servers. Same goes for pedos, TERFs, etc.
This makes it a LOT easier as an instance admin to moderate content and keep users safe. As a Masto admin, I only get about 10 reports a week because I block about 200-300 servers. It also incentivizes me and my other fellow admins to block that kind of content, because if we don’t, Nazis will come to our servers and we risk being defederated from.
It’s unfortunate but there are a ton of shitbag people out there whose method of using the Internet is to be as shitty as they can be. Whether it’s fascism, abuse, sexism, racism, harassment, or just being the kind of person nobody wants to be around, these are real-life humans who’ve always been around and volunteer moderators/admins have always had to deal with. It’s as old as Usenet and if you’ve ever done in-person community management you know that it’s just a feature of our society in general. (People are just a little more wary of being yelled at and punched in person though.)
It isn’t “running away”, its preferring to go to bars where the bouncer will reliably throw nazis out. If these bouncers didn’t toss a nazi, I’d find a bar where they would.
You mean like what happens when you join any of these far-right platforms and post something with any sort of common sense or reasoning? These people don’t give a shit about free speech. They want to spread their hate and influence and “muh free speech” is the crutch they use to convince people like you to defend them.
Guess what? Even after they’re banned they still have freedom of speech! Nobody broke into their house and cut out their tongues. Free speech does not equal a free platform.
Main issue is that in a large enough group of people, there are bound to be a few Nazis that slip in and start causing shit.
Going nuclear (defederating) on the whole group before they are aware or can react to this revelation is completely unreasonable. Even more so when the instance owners, moderators and the community are aware and actively down-voting and removing comments and communities.
Plus, I’d rather have those useless fuckers out in the open - it’s easier to hit them that way. Hit them with legal charges is what I meant, of course.
I’m out of the loop and still new to Lemmy, what happened?
Huge drama surrounding instances that have a major far-right presence and certain instances cutting connections (defederating), while others aren’t (staying federated).
I like how someone put it in another thread. From the “defederaters,” The argument most seen is: “if there’s a nazi at the table and you say nothing, it’s a table full of nazis.” The most common counter-argument is “it’s actually like a stadium full of people with some nazi’s in the corner jerking themselves off.” From the “federators,” the most common argument is “defederation defeats decentralization,” and the most common counter to this is simply: “fuck off nazi!”
I find the whole situation quite extraordinary to see unfold and be a part of.
What stadiums have these people been to where being a Nazi is okay? Stadium staff curate very specific atmospheres, and being a Nazi is an automatic disqualifier
Excellent example of why giant instances are bad ideas. Nazis love forcing you into a “throw the baby out with the bathwater” type choice because it means they can continue their hateful, destructive, genocidal behaviors without consequences. They’re usually not stupid, they know what they’re doing is wrong, they just want to keep getting away with it. So they’ll go nuclear on anyone and everyone in order to maintain their comfy corner of hate.
Any moderator (or stadium owner) who doesn’t give Nazis jerking off in a corner a lifetime ban is negligent, as you said.
Aren’t the instances defederating from exploding heads actually the ones maintaining their comfy corners though
Yes but instead of a comfy corner of hate, it’s a comfy corner without nazis
Coming from ShitJustWorks, I never ever have seen a thread from exploding-heads. They simply do not make it into the feed. And the only reason I saw any posts from TheDonald community while it still existed was because sorting by active was broken and would randomly throw in threads with no traction whatsoever. I can get behind keeping a space hate-free. But currently, there simply is no hate being shown even on instances still federated with exploding-heads.
This is a period of explosive growth and adjustment for Lemmy, it’ll take awhile for things to settle down and for us to see what people’s true colors are. Hopefully anywhere that actually harbors hateful or troll content will be marginalized and the mainstream instances will be properly moderated, but it’ll be a continual battle since such people always want to find new ways to spread awfulness. If we’re lucky, instances that have good track records will federate with each other. If not, people can vote with their feet.
Do you actually have solid grounds to call all the users of an instance nazis? That’s not something to throw around lightly
I agree, it’s not something to throw around lightly. I might be misinterpreting your message, but I don’t believe I called all the users of an instance nazis (in this case, I guess we’d be taking about sh.it.just.works). I realise in a comment lower in the thread, they say “defederating from exploding heads”, but that’s not exactly correct because that’s a community, not an instance. I am not calling all sh.it.just.works users nazis, and I’m not calling all exploding heads users nazis either. It’s just that that sort of community tends to attract some nazis, so I would say that exploding heads would attract and retain a higher number of nazis than other communities.
What I did say, regarding the stadium metaphor, is that instead of having a stadium with a comfy corner of hate for nazis (a community in an instance that facilitates such people and behaviour, which could seep into the rest of the instance and other instances), if you defederate, it would make the whole stadium more comfortable because there isn’t a corner with nazis (which would make it more inviting for other people to visit. Who would want to visit a stadium with a corner for nazis?). It would mean that the non-nazi people of that instance would also be moved to their own stadium with the small group of nazis, but they are free to create an account on another instance if they want to move. That’s the power of Lemmy; you can find an instance that aligns with your values and join that.
Okay the more I write in this stadium metaphor the more I realise it’s harder to make it make sense haha, I hope this makes some sense
People have crippled the power of many words by overuse.
Nazi, racist, bigot, -phobe, and so on.
Stop running away from Nazi. Most of them are just trolls with a Nazi facemask to scare a reaction out of you. Don’t cede power to them by acting as if their are dangerous. They are clowns, clown them.
They tried to overthrow the federal government last election and are responsible for countless hate crimes and fomenting prejudice and violence against marginalized people, including supporting new fascist laws in the past few years. They are dangerous, their ideology is dangerous, and their speech is used as a weapon to harm people. I’m not running away, I’m saying any “stadium” owner can and should be expected to ban such assholes from the premises. As the saying goes, if a bar owner lets Nazis congregate in the corner of their bar, it’s a Nazi bar. “Not all Germans” physically committed a genocide, but all of them tolerated or endorsed Nazism to the point of allowing it to happen. When good people see evil rising, they get involved and disrupt it, they don’t stay quiet and let it grow.
I don’t think they’re real. Pet theory, they’re actually bigtech henchmen here to fuck shit up so competitors get poisoned and die.
The answer is a more sophisticated user led moderation system that can wipe them off Lemmy like bugs on the windshield. Use wipers, not nuclear bombs.
I don’t think they’re real. Pet theory, they’re actually bigtech henchmen here to fuck shit up so competitors get poisoned and die.
The answer is a more sophisticated user led moderation system that can wipe them off Lemmy like bugs on the windshield. Use wipers, not nuclear bombs.
Nah this is not how moderation works on the fediverse. If you defederate from Nazi instances, Nazis have an incentive to go to those instances instead of yours - namely because they can’t interact with Nazi content. They can still harass your users of course, but they can’t build a platform and get banned quickly. So on the Fediverse you end up with a lot of Nazis on only a few servers, and everyone just bans those servers. Same goes for pedos, TERFs, etc.
This makes it a LOT easier as an instance admin to moderate content and keep users safe. As a Masto admin, I only get about 10 reports a week because I block about 200-300 servers. It also incentivizes me and my other fellow admins to block that kind of content, because if we don’t, Nazis will come to our servers and we risk being defederated from.
It’s unfortunate but there are a ton of shitbag people out there whose method of using the Internet is to be as shitty as they can be. Whether it’s fascism, abuse, sexism, racism, harassment, or just being the kind of person nobody wants to be around, these are real-life humans who’ve always been around and volunteer moderators/admins have always had to deal with. It’s as old as Usenet and if you’ve ever done in-person community management you know that it’s just a feature of our society in general. (People are just a little more wary of being yelled at and punched in person though.)
It isn’t “running away”, its preferring to go to bars where the bouncer will reliably throw nazis out. If these bouncers didn’t toss a nazi, I’d find a bar where they would.
Don’t be surprised when you or one of your friend gets thrown out as well
You mean like what happens when you join any of these far-right platforms and post something with any sort of common sense or reasoning? These people don’t give a shit about free speech. They want to spread their hate and influence and “muh free speech” is the crutch they use to convince people like you to defend them.
Guess what? Even after they’re banned they still have freedom of speech! Nobody broke into their house and cut out their tongues. Free speech does not equal a free platform.
Main issue is that in a large enough group of people, there are bound to be a few Nazis that slip in and start causing shit.
Going nuclear (defederating) on the whole group before they are aware or can react to this revelation is completely unreasonable. Even more so when the instance owners, moderators and the community are aware and actively down-voting and removing comments and communities.
And the beauty of the fediverse is if you are a Nazi sympathizer, you can pick an instance that federates with assholes!
Plus, I’d rather have those useless fuckers out in the open - it’s easier to hit them that way. Hit them with legal charges is what I meant, of course.
Ahh, the fine line between “must cut all contact with the bad people” and “oh, are we an insular cult now?”
As the old and wise George Carlin used to say…“fuck the ducking fuckers”. Use the word! It literally can be every word in a full sentence.
Literally anyone who isn’t a bigot/Nazi is welcome. I’m so sorry if that’s an ‘insular cult’ to you, but to most people that’s just decent company.
It’s not a fine line. More like an 8-lane highway
We have both extremes actually, both ultra left and right. Both got defederated by some major instances.