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After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I'm honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.

They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.

Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they're in it for the right reasons.

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[–] patachu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LOL, the OOP's username in that linked thread is certainly a username.

Really appreciate all the human eyes keeping a lookout for this nonsense instead of letting the ragebait spiral in on itself with the algorithms.

[–] Backspacecentury@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mod comment is glorious in the replies:

If it truly gets under your skin that these bigoted spaces are being defederated by the nicer spaces, feel free to join a more right-wing infested instance. Just understand that the rest of the fediverse is not obliged to listen to their lunacy.

Fuckin' mike drop.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's a pretty good take, but also the defederation ban-hammer seems to get dropped a bit, which seems like it should be the last option, not the first.

Surely there should be a way to mark content coming in from questionable servers with a tag so that users can choose to see it on their instance, similar to how NSFW posts can be hidden.

At least that way the content would be federated and things synced, leaving the choice up to the user.

[–] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just in case users really wanted to see some hate speech mixed in with their regular discussions?

Why give the option to indulge in that shit? They can fuck right off and live in their dumb little world with each other.

[–] firpple@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I think the thing you're forgetting is that users have the autonomy to find an instance (or create their own) that doesn't filter that stuff out.

It also seems to me that instances do a good job of describing themselves and it should be pretty easy to get an idea of what they will/won't allow.

[–] smokinjoe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Go ahead and build the feature.

Until it exists, this is the current solution.

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's the main issue. Corporate social media place "engagement" above everything. This means amplifying hate and bigotry. Once you stop amplifying this shit, it becomes far less prominent and people aren't caught in a bubble any more.