Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat? : asklemmy

[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can check which instances are federated and which are blocked by opening the instance in a browser and scrolling to the bottom and clicking "instances".

Lemm.ee is federated with exploding-heads.com that's why OP is seeing racist shit.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 years ago

Defederating from that instance is an absolute must, if you want to take a small step from preventing Voatification. That instance took from where Wolfballs left off.

[-] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

BTW every time I see you commenting on something it makes me think I joined the right instance. Well, I joined after checking that out but you are just making it so easy to be happy about it.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Funny, I checked the username after reading your comment and sure enough it was Quentin. I feel exactly the same about choosing Sopuli so far.

[-] PixelPassport@chat.maiion.com 9 points 2 years ago

User also joined lemm.ee at the same time they crossposted these and neither them or the OP has replied, something is sketchy...

[-] ThoughtGoblin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Does Lemmy have the ability to move an account to another instance? I know you can delete and recreate, but the former would be useful for occasions like this.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My lemmy-client-fu isn't yet up to the task of linking it while on mobile... but I just saw a thread about two tools that will help you essentially clone your Lemmy account to another instance. Might help, even if not perfect?

[-] ThoughtGoblin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I'll look that up later! Hope you have a great day.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 88 points 2 years ago

Personally, I'm continuing my efforts to not be a racist piece of shit.

[-] Mystical_Toe_Cheese@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

Keep up the good work!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago

Report those posts so we can remove them.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 35 points 2 years ago

Unsubscribing to dank memes would be a good start.

[-] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 31 points 2 years ago

I have a "Ruin their day in any possible way" policy when dealing with nazis online, in person I have a "punch them in the mouth and see what happens" policy.

[-] linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

based

[-] reclipse@lemdro.id 25 points 2 years ago

Block dank memes

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago

There's actual moderation on each community, so that helps. As does the fact that it's not being populated just by people who were booted from Reddit for being too hateful.

It's inevitable there will be a corner of the fediverse that's hyper-racist, though. Having an authority is a double-edged sword but so is not having one.

[-] nix@merv.news 17 points 2 years ago

Currently your server just needs to defederate from exploding-heads.com and lemmygrad.ml to avoid nonsense. Basically all other servers moderate really well

[-] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Voat was by and for the weird racists from the start.

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Was it? I don't ask that to be a jackass. I remember being on there briefly before the racist and jailbait bans on Reddit and it didn't come across as terribly racist to me at the beginning. But it sure as hell got really racist, creepy, and fat-hatey really damn quick.

There's a possibility I just missed it. I'm pretty oblivious unless something is right in my face.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

To the best of my memory, it started out as a less moderated more free speech space. But that kind of place online tends to attract racists, bigots, and haters because most places online are very free except for those kinds of speech.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Voat was founded to be free speech maximalist relative to Reddit. Basically the only subreddits Reddit ever banned that weren't bigots or pedophiles were r/shoplifting because corpos don't like being stolen from and r/chapotraphouse to present an appearance of impartiality when banning r/thedonald.

When someone online bemoans a lack of free speech, you have to ask, "free speech to say what?" in much the same tone as you might ask, "states' rights to do what?"

[-] Adramis@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

IIRC, Voat either was created in response to or got popular after the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and some other shitty subs.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.

[-] king_dead@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah my instance does that.

[-] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.ml also has a lemmygrad instance that is spamming propaganda and disinformation in all the news / politics subs. The !worldnews here is just about useless since it's 75% lemmygrad users and their alts spamming nonsense.

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I've blocked two users who spam pro-China propaganda non stop in that /c/. Ugh

[-] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It's definitely a problem here. They spam to every news community, then brigade the votes. And, they use a bunch of alt accounts on different instances.

[-] sjatar@sjatar.net -3 points 2 years ago

All comments in this chain being downvoted. hmm

[-] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Well, I just upvoted them all. Fuck those guys.

[-] Gamers_Mate@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I saw that yesterday I assume Lemmygrad will be blocked soon the last thing we need is nazis and tankies using the fediverse as their personal propaganda soapbox.

[-] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Lol, oh good, they've seen this. I forgot to mention, they also brigade. 5 downvotes in 5 minutes.

[-] TooL@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 years ago

Yep. I'd be perfectly fine with defederating from lemmy.ml. It's just as bad as lemmygrad. Tankies are fucking annoying and they all brigade like crazy.

[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Curate your feed better.

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