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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?

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[โ€“] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm gonna crosspost my comment from the original post:

Iโ€™m guessing your instance admins didnโ€™t defederate from exploding-heads.com. You can either ask your admin to defederate, or move to an instance that has defederated them.

[โ€“] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[โ€“] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] PixelPassport@chat.maiion.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] ThoughtGoblin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] ThoughtGoblin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll look that up later! Hope you have a great day.

[โ€“] DJDarren 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I'm continuing my efforts to not be a racist piece of shit.

[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not much, but it's honest work

[โ€“] DJDarren 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Soros cheques certainly come in handy.

[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :(

[โ€“] DJDarren 1 points 1 year ago

500? Thems are rookie numbers, kiddo.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

Report those posts so we can remove them.

[โ€“] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 32 points 1 year ago

Unsubscribing to dank memes would be a good start.

[โ€“] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[โ€“] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've blocked two users who spam pro-China propaganda non stop in that /c/. Ugh

[โ€“] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] sjatar@sjatar.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All comments in this chain being downvoted. hmm

[โ€“] HappyMeatbag 9 points 1 year ago

Well, I just upvoted them all. Fuck those guys.

[โ€“] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Lol, oh good, they've seen this. I forgot to mention, they also brigade. 5 downvotes in 5 minutes.

[โ€“] TooL@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Gamers_Mate@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] nix@merv.news 27 points 1 year ago

Currently your server just needs to defederate from exploding-heads.com and lemmygrad.ml to avoid nonsense. Basically all other servers moderate really well

[โ€“] reclipse@lemdro.id 23 points 1 year ago

Block dank memes

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] king_dead 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah my instance does that.

[โ€“] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voat was by and for the weird racists from the start.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.

[โ€“] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Adramis 2 points 1 year ago

IIRC, Voat either was created in response to or got popular after the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and some other shitty subs.

[โ€“] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Curate your feed better.

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