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As a mod, what are the rules in regards to leftist/socialist communities and posts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a mod of [email protected], and the last resort preemptive defederation from hexbear has me concerned. As a mod, what are the specific rules that I need to know about to make sure our community fits the guidelines of LemmyWorld? We aren't a huge community and there aren't a huge number of posts every day, but I want to see this community grow and thrive. I can't do that without knowing the guidelines hexbear violated to warrant defederation. We're focused on left unity, so I need to know what we can't allow.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't want to get into it right now because it's late for me, but from my perspective it very much appears like it's along ideological lines. I have been scrolling through hexbear for the last couple hours trying to find other signs of bad behavior, and I haven't seen anything that stands out. I figured scrolling through active posts would be a better indicator of what they're like, and it's mostly articles and leftist humor. Our community doesn't have a lot of humor, but there is a lot of articles

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

from my perspective it very much appears like it's along ideological lines.

I wouldn't say so at all. The admins took action to defederate from the alt-right explodingheads.com instance because the content there broke the servers rules here, and they made a similar judgment with HexBear because of their apparent intention to brigade.

While the decision to defederate from HB was arguably premature, the admins here do at least seem more concerned with protecting their users than they are with deplatforming specific political stances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

From what I recall about the exploding-heads debacle, there was a lot of polls and hand-wringing before defederating. An actual last resort. I spent hours on hexbear last night, it seemed like they mostly shitpost in the comments. Nothing I saw indicated that they were going to brigade or harass people on LW.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I almost commented this reply from my lemmy.world account, but I decided to switch to be commenting from my midwest.social account - an explicitly leftist server - to back up my assertion that I've not seen any indication that lemmy.world is anti-left with demonstration of the federation between the servers. Idk why the defederation happened, but I'm skeptical of the idea that it was simply the fact of their leftism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't want to speculate on their reasoning, but everything about it seems like it was reactionary to their statements about the IMF, NATO, and the World Bank. Those are pretty milquetoast leftist opinions. I don't think that they're actively trying to be anti-left yet, but signs are there and I want to make sure the leftism community isn't breaking the same rules hexbear did