The Lemmy Club is currently suffering from “The Nazi Bar” problem. All of their top communities are run by three right-wingers as illustrated below.

The Lemmy Club instance admin doesn’t seem to want to ban them, for the reasons mentioned below:

This vote is on whether or not we should defederate from this instance until they address their Nazi Bar problem.

Upvote = for defederation. Downvote = against defederation.

Edit: As others have mentioned, happy to treat this a only a temporary measure until the problem is resolved.

Edit 2: The Lemmy Club admin has said they will implement a rule against right wing communities, and has taken action on some problematic posts and users (see original comments below).

I’m willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the admin here, as they have responded in good faith:

If you implement those changes then I’d be willing to withdraw the defederation proposal and consider the problem resolved.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]
    111·
    6 days ago

    I think temporary defederation is sensible.

    Sure, you dbzer0 admins could play whack-a-mole with the right-wingers attracted to that instance, and your users could play it too… but come on, too much effort. Specially because I expect your users to gravitate heavily towards anarchism, so this sort of “democracy doesn’t work!” muppet will likely rub them off the wrong way.

    Also, didn’t dbzer0 ban Twitter links? I remember you guys were voting on something like this. If you did, then defederating thelemmy.club is even more sensible, as it’s consistent with previous decisions.

    (Just my two cents. I’m not from this instance, I don’t even know if I can vote [I probably can’t].)