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Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

Not how the instance blocking feature works. it's a common misconception because people don't read the docs and just assume it does what they think it does. From the News Section on Join-Lemmy:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

It's not an alternative or replacement to defederation, not even close. I'm really surprised this misconception still persists even after widespread adoption of 0.19.x across the Lemmy network.

[+] bouh@lemmy.world -54 points 8 months ago

So you don't care about the instance you want to ban all the users from there. That's quite open minded and tolerant!

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 8 months ago

Honestly, I'm so weary of being open minded and tolerant. I just want to look at linux memes in peace.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Paradox of tolerance, if you tolerate the intolerant then tolerance quickly goes extinct.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Can we stop this please?

It was never that revolutionary in the first place - "if you allow assholes to be assholes everything will go to shit" - I'm shocked.

... but now, after seeing it as a reply to every second comment on lemmy, it's just spam and doesn't inform discussion in any way.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

@bouh@lemmy.world Lol look at you seething away, came here just to randomly attack people in a defederation thread.

I know what triggers these types of responses to defederation, many people believe that the Fediverse was some grand user choice and free speech haven. Which is an incorrect assumption, by a long shot. The fediverse since it's beginning has never been a free speech platform, and also like all other top down servers prioritizes admins, the people who pay the bills and are liable for what happens on their server. So when servers violate these rules and all other options have been exhausted or it is clear that they will continue causing issues persistently, servers are defederated to maintain the peace and safety of their server. One thing to make clear is that all users have the choice of signing up to a different server that does federate, and if they are the victim of one of these compromised/bad-faith servers, they really should consider doing that.