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.
Defederate.
I understand why the owner of the instance finds our reaction distasteful, but unfortunately, we have no choice but to defederate from an instance whose largest community is run by this individual.
This is a governance community, meant for decisions (such as, should we be federated with a specific instance), not a diplomacy community. We don’t vote on “should we ask the owner of this instance to actually moderate in ways we find tolerable”? The unfortunate truth here is that instance is currently mostly this kind of garbage, so until it isn’t, defederation.
(Also I spent an hour trawling this individual’s comments to make sure of my opinion because I have ADHD and can’t stop myself, and while my normal reaction is surgical, this is too conveniently a case where every individual involved could have been acting in bad faith. Better to be thorough here than not.)