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.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You seem to have come to the same conclusion I did, in a sense, but via a different route: the first option, imo, is to alert the instance admin as to what is going on within their instance. If they are unaware, they cannot stamp it out.

    After they’ve been made aware, if they either choose to actively or passively condone such behavior then defederation is called for. If they continually “slip up” and such content falls through the cracks repeatedly after they’ve been made aware, that would also be grounds for defederation.

    My stance is that the first course of action should be to actively push these bad actors out of spaces that they seek to take over rather than leave those spaces to them.