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.

  • Mallspice@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    I am painfully aware of it and am also aware that’s it’s very easy to use that specific justification to become intolerant yourself.

    The best way to deal with cruel authoritarians is not to ban but to bully them into the shoes of those they hate. You can’t bully them if you ban them, they will just go elsewhere, isolate, then try to expand like they always do once they have a group they can rally.