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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 7 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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[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 2 points 7 months ago

You make valid points. Apologies for the Reddit accusation.

But the one thing that comes to mind is that this kind of Communist, like in lemmy.ml, is not big enough to cause this sway.

Sure, the instance is massive, but most users don't hold those same beliefs. Most people go to it as the "default" instance. So I really don't think they have the numbers to cause this issue.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

Sure. This thread is talking about lemmy.ml, but I'm talking about the current state of the lemmyverse.

I've posted this elsewhere in this thread but my unpopular opinion is that federation by default is not sustainable.

Presently admins federate with everyone and blacklist those which are problematic.

It's inevitable that in the near future someone with a rudimentary understanding of hosting will be able to spin up a dozen instances, each with a few thousand bot accounts, intent on upvoting every "genocide Joe biden" comment.

The fediverse will shatter. Admins will realise they need policies to guide their own moderation, and acknowledge that they can only federate with specific instances with compatible moderation.

So instead of blacklisting bad instances, you need to change to whitelisting good ones.