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Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nor how letting a large, poorly moderated instance run wild can negatively affect discourse on the entire platform. Before Hexbear was defed'd on lemmy.ca, Lemmy was damn near unusable on many threads because of the spam and trolling. Blocking them doesn't stop them from bothering those who haven't and it affects the platform as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocking is not a real solution, it is putting a blanket over the problem and pretending it went away. People who suggest you do that are suggesting you enable bad faith actors by ignoring their behavior, as opposed to reporting it and/or making others aware so they can report it. We all need to work better to make the platform and spaces on it better, if no one works at it, nothing gets better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! Letting problematic instances poison the well leads to a net negative to the platform.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

My unpopular opinion: Federating with everyone by default is not sustainable.

It's inevitable that the lemmyverse will shatter, and everyone will be better for it.

Instances will develop their own policies around moderation and behaviour, and federate with other instances with compatible policies.

Basically, federation only works if everyone is acting in good faith. It wouldn't take much for a single entity acting in bad faith to fuck the entire fediverse presently.

Presently admits are blacklisting the bad faith instances. That's going to change so admins whitelist compatible instances.