The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don’t think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches.

Edit: the response on exploding-heads.com to my reporting of transphobia. Courtesy of the “second in command”

  • @kukkurovacaEnglish
    109•11 months ago

    Nazi instances will proliferate and it benefits nobody else to stay in federation with them. It makes the whole fediverse less usable and more dangerous. And whether you like it or not it sends a message to people who are targeted by them that they are not truly welcome here, regardless of whatever moderation rules are espoused.

    And in North America, as in many places, these people are acting as a propaganda arm for a literal violent terror movement. Sometimes under a fig leaf of ”irony” but it makes no material difference whether they’re chuckling when they spew shit to me

    • @chalkmanOPEnglish
      49•11 months ago

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    • TurretCorruptionEnglish
      24•11 months ago

      I’m new to the fediverse and im kinda happy that its so easy to defederate from the more over the top instances. I’m in favor of closing the door on those psychos too.

      • @[email protected]English
        34•11 months ago

        The blueprint is there to kill the network. Make a load of accounts, spam down shit until you are defederated… Rinse and repeat.

        I think the responsibility lies on the owners of each instance to manage trolls on their instance. If they moderate responsibly and shut down the Nazis and trolls, nobody will defederate them. If they don’t moderate effectively and their instance turns into a cesspool, they’ll get defederated by everybody except other trolls.

        That’s the whole point of the fediverse. You run your instance, and based on what users on your instance do, other instances decide whether or not to federate with it. And if that results in multiple federated networks that don’t federate with one another, that’s fine too. You can’t keep fascists or tankies from downloading server software and setting up an online forum. But you can keep them out of yours.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•11 months ago

        Not a lot of folks are that vindictive and dedicated to the cause, to make that an issue, I don’t think.

        • NaNEnglish
          9•11 months ago

          Then sh.itjust.works should probably remove their instance-wide rules.