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Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[+] murmelade@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You're in lemmy.ml, so you can still see lemmy.world posts and comments. lemmygrad.ml users cannot interact with lemmy.world users at all.

Every post or comment is first hosted at the user's instance. So, even though you're from lemmy.ml and commenting in a lemmy.world thread, your comment itself is actually hosted at lemmy.ml first and then federated everywhere else. Similarly, if you were to make a post in a lemmy.world community, that would be hosted at lemmy.ml first and then federated to lemmy.world, even though the community itself is in lemmy.world.

This means that in order to see content you must meet 3 criteria:

You must be federated with the instance of the community.
You must be federated with the instance of the user making the post.
You must be federated with the instance of the user making the comment.

Where it gets interesting is when there's a third party involved. So, if a lemmy.world user were to make a post in a lemmy.ml community, then a lemmygrad.ml user would not be able to see it - even though lemmygrad.ml is federated with lemmy.ml, and the lemmygrad user can see the community, they will not have the post federated to them as the federated post is in an instance they cannot connect to. Similarly, if a lemmy.ml user made a post and a lemmy.world user commented on it, then the lemmygrad.ml user would still see the post but not the lemmy.world comments. It gets a bit janky, the website doesn't let you go down the tree from the first missing comment, but apps might give you some of the comments beneath that were still federated (the same as when a user deletes their comment). You get that "5 more replies ->" thing but when you click it doesn't expand.