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Recently it has come to my attention that the instance where my account is located rammy.site has been taken over by right wing bigots from the site exploding-heads they have created many hateful communities and have started posting transphobic content and climate denial. There's also quite a bit of community spam on here.

I very strongly advocate that the admins of this instance defederate from rammy.site as soon as humanly possible to stop the spread of their toxic shit to other instances.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right-wing losers = forum cancer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reading the comments section of any right wing forum is always... Eye-opening.

They turn on each other as soon as no one else is around to attack. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They turn on each other as soon as no one else is around to attack. Good riddance.

They were never together. They are full of hatred, they don't care what the person on the other side believes.

When your entire personality is to spread such hatred, you're never going to get along with anyone.

That's why right wing losers are so abusive to women. Usually you get married to someone you love and care about, but it seems like they just get married so they can make sure everyone knows they totally aren't gay!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Reading the comments section of any right wing forum is always... Eye-opening.

They turn on each other as soon as no one else is around to attack. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should create a publicly maintained list of instances people should defederate from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you can see this list on each instance. It's not a central one, but it's a start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw your comment and thought " I don't remember writing that..." then saw the domain lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you like the instance you're subscribed to?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used a bot to subscribe to a bunch of instances so I've got a bunch, it's pretty good, I'm enjoying finding alternative apps and websites for things I use . How Nout you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice!

I like my instance, but sometimes it gets overloaded. I guess it's a good thing in a way since more people are subscribing and being more active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ran across one of their posts on the local feed here and I have to agree, we should defederate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems the have been defederated because I can't seem to reach the site through the instance search

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have not been defederated, they're not in the blocked section on the instances page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't seen anything from that instance, and I am not going to go there and see for myself because I don't seek out sources of outrage. Defederation seems like a drastic first step.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not drastic considering the circumstances, the instance is unmoderated their admin isn't available, that's as good a reason as any to defederate them. The instance also doesn't have a blocklist, it doesn't block any instances it's also on outdated software and being unmoderated that is a recipe for disaster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like a huge step like defederation should be reactive instead of proactive. If rammy or any other instance becomes a source of spam or abuse here then it makes sense to defederate. But I don't think it makes sense just because they have some controversial users or communities but are keeping it to themselves. (btw rammy.site appears to be down)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Go look at what they're posting and then come back here.