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”

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    I didn’t seek them out to rile them up, that’s just what ended up happening.

    Yeah it’s probably a bit unnecessary, but even if the brigading doesn’t overly affect the community, it’s annoying when people come in to post divisive shit and it gets upvoted to +7 before anyone here notices.

    And then when I go over there I get people coming out of the woodwork to hurl slurs at me. I know those aren’t necessarily people from your server, but they are part of that whole scene, so I can’t just ignore that kind of stuff.

    Also by my count you’ve got 1.2k users and we are closing in on 5k. So not bigger by a factor of 100

    • AyyLMAO@exploding-heads.comEnglish
      43·
      2 years ago

      1.2k registered users on one of the oldest Lemmy instances.

      We had 20 active users today, you had 640. I retract my guesstimate, my argument is that you’re only bigger by a factor of 32.

      And is it impossible that some of the users from your instance upvoted something they subscribe to, so it must be brigading?

      But let’s not discuss like we disagree. You all have convinced me to support defederation.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I suspected that was the case, but you didn’t make it super clear that most of your users were afk. You should have put that in the headline.

        What was the reason that instance was created and how long ago? I really don’t know anything about Lemmy history before I joined.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
            32·
            2 years ago

            I did know that. I don’t particularly care. My understanding is that it’s open source, so if push comes to shove, somebody can just create a fork and the non-tankies can continue the project.

            I appreciate them for creating this platform and hey, capitalism makes people do crazy things.

            Also do you have some kind of language filter because every time I try to reply to you I need to remember to select English or it just spins.