antik@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.World Admin Lead [EU]

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  • antik@lemmy.world@lemm.eetoBeehaw Support@beehaw.org•Is defederation from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works still necessary?
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    1 year ago

    Hi,

    I’m speaking on behalf of the admin team of Lemmy World - we feel like we have to step in here and give some feedback to the things being said in this thread and give our perspective.

    About “Supporting nazi’s”:

    So we support nazi’s because it took us ‘long’ to defederate from exploding heads? That’s straight up false. We were one of the first instances to defederate with them and advocated heavily to have them defederated on other instances. FYI Lemmy World as a whole is just over 2 months old and so is this post: https://lemmy.world/post/747912

    There was an issue early on with the original moderator of the Lemmy World https://lemmy.world/c/conservative community which was handled instantly:

    1. The problematic moderator https://lemmy.world/u/OptionHome that was posting misinformation (and worse) was banned
    2. The https://lemmy.world/c/conservative community was given to other moderators.
    3. We asked people to stop bombaring the /c/conservative community with anti-conservative posts as to allow civil discourse. https://lemmy.world/post/149519
    4. The https://lemmy.world/c/maga community was also banned

    We take a hard stance on extremism from both sides of the political spectrum, and we believe that civil discourse should always be the first option. We ban hate communities on sight no matter whose side they are on, and we work hard to resolve the hundreds of reports we receive each day. As of today, 3733 users were banned from Lemmy.World, and that number will probably have gone up by the time you read this comment. We follow-up on moderation teams if we see reports that stay open for too long and if communities are abandoned we actively look to replace the moderation team.

    So we ask everyone to keep sending in reports when you see any post that breaks the Lemmy World rules which can be found here: https://lemmy.world/legal.

    About Beehaw’s decision to defederate with us: Even though we don’t agree with it, we have always been supportive of Beehaw and their choice to defederate with us until the mod tools improve. Even when the question gets posted in our community we defended the decision: https://lemmy.world/post/895811.

    But wether or not Beehaw will refederate with us is ofcourse 100% your decision.