Hello World,

we have just defederated from lemmy.org due to lack of moderation on their side.

This instance has open registrations, seemingly zero abuse prevention on signup, including not requiring emails. This leads to a small number of people constantly creating new disposable accounts for various types of abuse with zero consequences.

Their admin is the CEO of an ad company, which surely doesn't affect incentives. They do virtually zero moderation, allowing all these abusive accounts to rampantly harass other instances. The very rare cases when moderation actually happens is when it affects local communities on that instance, anything else seems to be getting ignored. The admin is also frequently posting to their local communities, but doesn't at all comment or interact with remote communities in any way.

We, as well as other people, including at least one admin of another instance, have attempted to reach out to them about their lack of moderation, but we haven't received any response at all.

At this point there isn't really anything left besides defederating them, which several other instances have already done as well.