Weird racist posts from dank memes keeps showing up in my feed. Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat 2.0? We’re really concerned about Threads and that’s a big unknown. Weird racists already destroyed the last Reddit escape are we concerned about that? Like are we going to make a policy of defederating hate groups?

I’m pretty confident this community is using fake accounts since every post starts at ~20 and then gets down voted after it’s been forced into a bunch of people’s feed.

If not that’s fine I guess but does anyone have a suggestion for somewhere that will?

  • AvgCakeSlice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The problem is who decides when an instance contains “nothing of value”? You’re leaving that up to a small handful of admins. You could also encounter a situation where multiple admins collectively decide to defederate from anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the same block list, so any instances who hold different opinions are cut off from loads of content on other instances. We run the risk of splitting the fediverse up into multiple, totally isolated chunks which I don’t think is a good thing on the whole.