Gregory's ServerThe #Fediverse needs to learn some serious conflict resolution...
If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.
Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.
Ultimately when the admin logged in they removed that community. But before they even had time to realize what was happening they were already being accused of stuff and if any instance heeded the call to block, it would have caused damage to the users who would have their subscriptions / follows severed.
Some users who've just arrived from Reddit and bring a fresh perspective are already wary of the shit show this can become.
That instance resisted massive blocks because it was large enough. But what if it was smaller? >>
The #Fediverse needs to learn some serious conflict resolution...
If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.
Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.
@Wander
Is it possible, as an instance sysop, to moderate creation of communities?
This was an attack on open registrations server because trolls knew moderators were offline due to outage, but admin had a lot of trouble asking other instances to lift defederations afterwards, and I have personally seen fediblock posts saying to not hesitate and block by domain (though person who posted it was nice to edit post when I pointed out misunderstanding)
This was an attack on open registrations server because trolls knew moderators were offline due to outage, but admin had a lot of trouble asking other instances to lift defederations afterwards, and I have personally seen fediblock posts saying to not hesitate and block...