cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/883288
Weird racist posts from dank memes keeps showing up in my feed. Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat 2.0? We’re really concerned about Threads and that’s a big unknown. Weird racists already destroyed the last Reddit escape are we concerned about that? Like are we going to make a policy of defederating hate groups?
I’m pretty confident this community is using fake accounts since every post starts at ~20 and then gets down voted after it’s been forced into a bunch of people’s feed.
If not that’s fine I guess but does anyone have a suggestion for somewhere that will?
I’m gonna crosspost my comment from the original post:
I’m guessing your instance admins didn’t defederate from exploding-heads.com. You can either ask your admin to defederate, or move to an instance that has defederated them.
You can check which instances are federated and which are blocked by opening the instance in a browser and scrolling to the bottom and clicking “instances”.
Lemm.ee is federated with exploding-heads.com that’s why OP is seeing racist shit.
Defederating from that instance is an absolute must, if you want to take a small step from preventing Voatification. That instance took from where Wolfballs left off.
BTW every time I see you commenting on something it makes me think I joined the right instance. Well, I joined after checking that out but you are just making it so easy to be happy about it.
Funny, I checked the username after reading your comment and sure enough it was Quentin. I feel exactly the same about choosing Sopuli so far.
User also joined lemm.ee at the same time they crossposted these and neither them or the OP has replied, something is sketchy…
The OP, the Crosspost OP, and the racist posts could be the same person trying spread this idea that Lemmy is failing trying to scare people away.
Not making accusations, just a wild speculation. 🤔
Does Lemmy have the ability to move an account to another instance? I know you can delete and recreate, but the former would be useful for occasions like this.
My lemmy-client-fu isn’t yet up to the task of linking it while on mobile… but I just saw a thread about two tools that will help you essentially clone your Lemmy account to another instance. Might help, even if not perfect?
Thanks, I’ll look that up later! Hope you have a great day.
Personally, I’m continuing my efforts to not be a racist piece of shit.
It’s not much, but it’s honest work
The Soros cheques certainly come in handy.
True true, I remember my first Soros cheque. From next month we’ll get a bonus if we keep using Lemmy. But at least 500 comments per month. That’s hard :(
500? Thems are rookie numbers, kiddo.
Report those posts so we can remove them.
I have a “Ruin their day in any possible way” policy when dealing with nazis online, in person I have a “punch them in the mouth and see what happens” policy.
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Unsubscribing to dank memes would be a good start.
Lemmy.ml also has a lemmygrad instance that is spamming propaganda and disinformation in all the news / politics subs. The !worldnews here is just about useless since it’s 75% lemmygrad users and their alts spamming nonsense.
I’ve blocked two users who spam pro-China propaganda non stop in that /c/. Ugh
It’s definitely a problem here. They spam to every news community, then brigade the votes. And, they use a bunch of alt accounts on different instances.
All comments in this chain being downvoted. hmm
Well, I just upvoted them all. Fuck those guys.
Lol, oh good, they’ve seen this. I forgot to mention, they also brigade. 5 downvotes in 5 minutes.
Yep. I’d be perfectly fine with defederating from lemmy.ml. It’s just as bad as lemmygrad. Tankies are fucking annoying and they all brigade like crazy.
I saw that yesterday I assume Lemmygrad will be blocked soon the last thing we need is nazis and tankies using the fediverse as their personal propaganda soapbox.
Currently your server just needs to defederate from exploding-heads.com and lemmygrad.ml to avoid nonsense. Basically all other servers moderate really well
Block dank memes
There’s actual moderation on each community, so that helps. As does the fact that it’s not being populated just by people who were booted from Reddit for being too hateful.
It’s inevitable there will be a corner of the fediverse that’s hyper-racist, though. Having an authority is a double-edged sword but so is not having one.
Yeah my instance does that.
Voat was by and for the weird racists from the start.
Was it? I don’t ask that to be a jackass. I remember being on there briefly before the racist and jailbait bans on Reddit and it didn’t come across as terribly racist to me at the beginning. But it sure as hell got really racist, creepy, and fat-hatey really damn quick.
There’s a possibility I just missed it. I’m pretty oblivious unless something is right in my face.
IIRC, Voat either was created in response to or got popular after the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and some other shitty subs.
I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.
Curate your feed better.