Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below).

It seems that exploding-heads has also experienced a recent botswarm invasion. This is obviously another point in favor of defederating them, assuming you are worried about botswarms, which is currently being discussed here.

My advice to you all is please try to discuss this in a civil manner, we need not allow them to create divisive conflict inside our communities. No matter how the vote turns out, you’re not going to be able to defederate from your fellow sh.itheads so be nice.

I’ve linked many of the previous discussions below so people who are out of the loop can get a general sense of the situation.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126 https://sh.itjust.works/post/410325

Lemmy.world just recently defederated them.

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

https://lemmy.world/post/577526

Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.

Ensuring diversity of servers is beneficial to the platform as a whole, but it is also not our responsibility to bear that burden.

TLDR, just wrap up any last points in this thread before we open the vote tomorrow. Please be civil.

EDIT: To clarify, this isn’t the official vote, this is the final discussion. The vote thread will be posted tomorrow and you will only be allowed to make a single comment saying Aye or Nay.

EDIT2: Vote thread is up, this thread is now locked. Very lively discussion thread sh.itheads. Please try to be more respectful next time.

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    1 year ago

    however I would note that as far as I’ve seen the tankies haven’t sent over minions to disrupt sh.itjust.works

    I have. they’re mostly on lemmy.ml, if you see an account posting tankie-related or pro-communist content, look up their username on grad, most of the time they have an alt there. There is documentation of this on MeanwhileOnGrad

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      1 year ago

      Cool, so defederation worked, we don’t have to see their bollocks here. Sounds like a good case for axing EH to me.

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        1 year ago

        No, it didn’t work because they just made alts instead.

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          1 year ago

          Really ? So you’ve been seeing tankies on here ? I don’t suppose you can link to any for me ? Because all I’ve seen are a few fash defending hate speech, not so much from the other extremists.

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            1 year ago

            By here, do you mean sh.it or the fediverse as a whole? Since I’d be mighty curious to see fash defending hatespeech on sh.it