Like are we going to make a policy of defederating hate groups?

Hey! First of all, here is our federation policy. In short, it is not a goal for lemm.ee to curate content from other instances, simply because this would be a massive effort for very little benefit. There are tens of thousands of instances out there, and that number is constantly increasing. Meanwhile, problematic content from the vast majority of those instances very rarely reaches lemm.ee - even for a big instance which we have defederated already, burggit.moe, there were only a couple of problematic posts that I had to purge from lemm.ee at the time I defederated them.

If I commited to policing other instances outside of lemm.ee, it would leave very little time for me to do much more beneficial things, such as working on Lemmy code. Not to mention, I’m not really interested in going out to these toxic instances and reading what they post there. So I am relying on our users - if a lot of reports about rule breaking on lemm.ee end up being caused by users of a single instance, then I would consider that a strong signal to defederate that instance. Similarly, if content that is against lemm.ee rules starts creeping in to our “all” feed from a specific instance, I would also consider that a strong reason to defederate an instance.

Here on lemm.ee, we have simple rules. One of those rules is no bigotry. So far, all users reported for posting bigoted content on lemm.ee have been banned. Most of these users have been local lemm.ee users, with only a few exceptions. I have not noticed any trends with any one specific instance causing a lot of problems so far.

Weird racist posts from dank memes keeps showing up in my feed.

Can you please point out specific posts that have shown up in your feed? I personally am on lemm.ee a lot, and have not managed to catch anything like that in any of my feeds. I am asking users to please notify me of such things directly with concrete examples so I can take action.