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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Hello World,

Today, after careful consideration and evaluation of recent events, we have decided to defederate from Lemmygrad.

Regrettably, we have observed a significant increase in hate speech and calls to violence originating from the Lemmygrad instance. Due to the severity of the posts and comments, we are not waiting for the next Lemmy update that will allow users to block instances.

At Lemmy.world, we have always strived to foster an inclusive and welcoming user environment. However, recent posts and comments from Lemmygrad have clearly violated our server rules and, more importantly, our core values. We firmly believe that hate speech and incitement of violence have no place in our community, regardless of personal beliefs or affiliations.

As always, we encourage all users to report any content they deem inappropriate or harmful. No matter one's stance in any conflict, Lemmy.world will always take immediate action to remove and ban any posts or comments that incite violence or propagate hatred.

We encourage everyone to continue engaging in discussions within the boundaries of respect and understanding. As we move forward with this decision, we remain committed to providing all community members with a safe and welcoming space. We appreciate your continued support and cooperation in upholding our shared principles.

Thank you,

The Lemmy.World Team

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[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 101 points 1 year ago

You guys were still federated with Lemmygrad this long?

[-] lwadmin@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago

Most of their communities were blocked since months, that's why you didn't see much of them.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

I'm just surprised overall because most other major instances defederated from them weeks or months ago, along with Hexbear and/or Exploding Heads. .ca has been defederated with those probably for at least two months now.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

The administration of this Instance has a moderate lean towards not defederating in general, they have to be pushed in general. I would describe LW as a free speech leaning Instance, within the Lemmy environment.

Naturally the topic is very divisive overall and tends to draw heated arguments no matter what position is taken. Free speech absolutists find it downright draconian. I imagine being on Beehaw for longer than five minutes might reduce them to ash, I'm not sure.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

LW has some communities which are quite non-freespeech, with rules like "we can remove and ban anything against the rules or not" (see !world), and some which use their rules arbitrarily as excuses for removing content that doesn't match their ideology (see !politicalmemes).

[-] pascal@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

So, how does it work if I'm on lemm.ee? Is this defederation global?

[-] AmazingWizard@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

No its only for the instance. Lemmy.ee is still federated with lemmygrad.

[-] pascal@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lemm.ee is still federated with Hexbear, so they definitely arent defeding .ml. The lemm.ee admin only cares if you deny the genocide that effected his family. To him all other genocide denial is apparently perfectly fine!

[-] pascal@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is the admin Armenian!?

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