It's quite sad to watch unfold, but the admin of rammy has been basically MIA all month and exploding-heads users and admin (which we have been de-federated from for a while) has taken notice and has decided to invade and set up shop there to just generally push their stuff into the federation. Entire front page is a hate fest against LGBT people and just general foul bigotry. Hopefully the rammy admin comes back and cleans stuff up, and then we can hopefully re-federate (if they want to.)
Just wanted to give a heads up in case anyone was curious why another instance was added to the blocked server list :/
And that intervention would probably take a while to happen, tbh. I still think defederation should be the absolute last resort, but I've read mod tools are still not on the level to adequately deal with this sort of stuff.
I love that there's a way to deal with shitbrained bigots on lemmy. It sucks entire servers get brigades, but it's fucking awesome that they can be blocked. And unlike with the other site, if a popular sub was taken over, that name was lost. Now you can just remake popularsub@newinstance.fuckthebigots and I have never been happier to be off reddit. :)
Just remember you horny fuckers, they will continue to plead to the point that they should just be ignored and not restricted because of [Insert slippery slope falacy here]
Don’t let smooth brains smooth your brain over too - we live in a beautiful reality full of possibilities and literal infinite possibilities for how to do things. Just because something bad is possible to happen doesn’t mean the idea should be abandoned altogether.
That’s lazy and wastes time which is exactly what trolls want - to be bought more time
there are almost no posts there, seems like a premature defederation
also this is not true AFAIK:
exploding-heads users and admin ... has taken notice and has decided to invade and set up shop there to just generally push their stuff into the federation
a user on EH posted that RS was possibly being defederated, then a user from RS posted to EH, then EH people started posting there