Why is the fmhy instance defederated from the lemmygrad instance?
Why is the fmhy instance defederated from the lemmygrad instance?
Our instance is only defederated from one other instance and it's lemmygrad. My question is why? It doesn't seem like a hate group or anything as far as I can tell. Can someone fill me in?
I hope I posted this to the right place; still getting used to how lemmy works. If I should post elsewhere, let me know.
...while still being federated with the fascist exploding-heads.com
Sounds like more defederation is needed, not less.
Or just no defederation at all.
Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances. You basically had to either defederate from Lemmygrad or have every conversation get derailed by people going on about how Stalin was actually a pretty chill dude. Defederating from Lemmygrad probably isn't so important anymore, but it's just kind of stuck around out of inertia at this point, I think.
Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances.
This is correct. After all, setting up an instance like Lemmygrad -as an alternative places where discussing politics (especially leftist politics) outside of reddit's moderation reach- was one of the reasons Lemmy was developed in the first place. Lemmy's developers are not shy about it, they include it in the official docs.
I picked the SDF instance for this reason, otherwise I would be on aussie.zone or lemmygrad as my main. I also have one on lemmy.ml but I prefer to distribute the server load.
Honestly I may change instances over it... It doesn't sit right with me to only defederate from just an extreme leftist instance instead of both that and the extreme right one.
I'd personally rather defederate from neither and leave it up to the individual user to block what they don't want to see
I saw one post from Lemmygrad and it was like listening to MAGA heads, except instead of conservatism, it was extreme communism.
Extremists on either side are not good.
@Kolanaki why is extremism “not good”?
It's a pain in the arse when people make sweeping statements like that.
I see myself as an extremist, self described as on the radical far left. However I'm no way a tankie obsessed with Stalin and Mao and certainly not about to pretend genocides weren't committed.
There's certainly takeaways from Stalin and Maos and the ideology they moulded, but too quick people jump to their defences but equally any communism is instantly shot down as crazy.
Guess I'm rambling now. Basically in summary, you can be an extremist on the left that isn't authoritarian whilst still wanting everyone in society to have a fair share