Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat?

cross-posted from: 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?

Rearsays,

Curate your feed better.

god,
@god@sh.itjust.works avatar

guessing you haven’t seen the massive defederation wave against anything racist or bigoted. this complaint is a about a non-issue.

jjakc,
@jjakc@lemthony.com avatar

Is there a list of known racist instances that I can use to defederate my instance from?

god,
@god@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes sir, there’s lots of lists. Go to any instance that is a safe space and check out their defederation lists.

Black_Gulaman,
@Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Look at beehaw defederated list. That should give you an idea.

Fun fact, lemmynsfw is not defederated by beehaw.

buckykat,

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

corsicanguppy,

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

averagedrunk,

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.

Adramis,

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

buckykat,

Voat was founded to be free speech maximalist relative to Reddit. Basically the only subreddits Reddit ever banned that weren’t bigots or pedophiles were r/shoplifting because corpos don’t like being stolen from and r/chapotraphouse to present an appearance of impartiality when banning r/thedonald.

When someone online bemoans a lack of free speech, you have to ask, “free speech to say what?” in much the same tone as you might ask, “states’ rights to do what?”

Belgdore,

To the best of my memory, it started out as a less moderated more free speech space. But that kind of place online tends to attract racists, bigots, and haters because most places online are very free except for those kinds of speech.

DJDarren,

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

xavier666,

It’s not much, but it’s honest work

DJDarren,

The Soros cheques certainly come in handy.

xavier666,

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 :(

Kerrangutan,

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.

001100010010,
@001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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.

QuentinCallaghan,
@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

ImplyingImplications,

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.

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