Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.
I feel like I might be put on a FBI list for reading this.
I’m genuinely disappointed that Asbestos Cafe is basically forbidden now. That’d be a solid name for a hardcore alcoholic vegan bar.
Jfc right? What possessed someone to make some of those?
I was curious what freak.university was but it just leads to a 404 :/
Based on some of these other site names, you probably don’t actually want to know
Mm, true yeah
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Needs to be much higher…
Trumpislovetrumpislife, that has to be satire, right?
“Any community that gets its kicks pretending to be idiots, will eventually be overtaken by actual idiots who believe they are in good company.”
Wait till you visit nazi.social
Removed by mod
I zoom in and this is the FIRST thing I see. What in the god damned shit?
And it’s above Threads.net. Talk about priorities lol
hexbear isn’t even malicious. hexbear is spicy at best. not nearly as bad as lemmygrad, which is outright repugnant in its overt hostility. hexbear users are at least CAPABLE of communicating, whereas in my experience lemmygrad users pull the animal farm squealer move and defecate on the floor before storming out.
Hexbear suffers from the nazi bar problem, they’re not ALL tankies, but they sure do hang out with a lot of them
I just don’t have the time to sus out who’s who and it’s much easier (and less massive-shock-image-spamming) to use an instance that’s defederated with them
“Naw guys, the tankie platform is fine I promise. Please let
usthem harass everyone again. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ”I’m on hexbear. It’s a good community. It’s leftist though so conservatives and libruls won’t like it. But you can have a good argument and find like minded people.
The thing is, you can ONLY have a conversation with extremely like minded people. If you are not tip-of-the-left authoritarian, you are called a filthy lib and shunned.
Sadly it just suffers the same syndrome as that conservative sub on reddit: “Anyone who doesn’t agree with me on every important and semi important point is literally the same as my worst enemy and I will fill their inbox with insults”
I disagreed with the way they often brigade posts and they said I was “indiscernible from the racist, fascist party” from my country. Like they went through the effort of looking up where I was from and the political parties there to find the most right wing one to name call and insult me with lol. That says a lot about the community culture, in my opinion.
It also has heavy Russian apologist content. Like, I even understand that MLs love China and excuse everything they do, but Russia is literally an right wing oligarchy with no health care and crippled social benefits that is led by an extreme right wing authoritarian fascist. I get that they are China’s ally by the enemy-of-my-enemy principle, but that doesn’t mean they are automatically good.
Not like over here, where I just mentioned another community I belonged to. Very different😒. Congratulations!
Ha, true. Well on the bright side, it looks like you only had one person insult you and they didn’t try to dox you so at least the lashback is quite tame 😅 I would call that a very positive experience if we were over there haha
Everyone hates everyone I guess…
lol the last time I was doxed was some MAGA freak on Nextdoor. Now that’s a fucking cesspool of filth…
It’s the kind of place you go when you are bored out of your mind, online and want to see some circus shit going on without being sprinkled in toxic dung
It’s horrible but stomachable and you get to see very special people you didn’t know exist. A living cautionary tale of going too far
I don’t have that experience at all. But I’m not there to try and win any battles. Lots of true allies.
I mean they are literally Mao Zedong figures with rainbow clothes it’s fucking bizzare. I never expected to see gay Chinese communists and queer soviets hence for me it’s like a trip
I only had similar feeling when seeing dark skinned Polish aryans neonazis, the clash of history is just too funny or at least it would be if it was a stand up comedy and they didn’t want to kill me on sight, just like the hexbears for that matter
In any case as long as you pretend to be one of em it’s always super nice, cult like, sisterhood but they have cute tendency for wanting to kill you immediately after you reveal yourself
I can see the broad strokes you are painting with. I’m not them, I’m there. That is all. Continue working to bring down the patriarchy!🏴🏴🏴🤘🏿
Hexbear rules. 40 year old liberal tech nerds who grew up on American propaganda hate it because they hate change and congregations of young people.
I don’t hate change, I hate Putin apologism from a space that claims to be left wing.
More to the point I hate brain dead takes like “voting is not harm reduction and if you don’t go 3rd party in 2024 you’re no better than a fascist”
Before I blocked the instance I had nothing but miserable interactions with Hexbear users, and it had nothing to do with political opinions.
Shame. My condolences. When people feel this way it doesn’t help. Rock on, Comrade🤘🏿
It may well be “leftist”, but it’s also maximum authoritarian. Hexbears love fascism like a raccoon loves trash. If you’re anything but a full-on Nazi, absolutely including being a genocide denier, you’ll be relentlessly attacked on there.
they’re neo nazi pedophiles iirc and in the brief time i was on a fedi instance federated with them i saw one of them trying to goad a trans person i knew with suicidal tendencies to kill herself because he thought it would be funny. like its so many orders of magnitude worst its just completely stupid to compare them at all. Like here’s some of the defed reasons from the top of the incredibly long list of instances that have defedded it:
Nazi content
Racism
antisemitism, racism, homophobia
Nationalsozialistisches Gedankengut
Hate speech
racist slurs, anti-semitic stuff, etc
Nazisme, Transphobie, Racisme, Antisemitisme
Admins are having Nazi symbolics in their profile
racism, pedophilia, harassment
Serveur d’extrême droite / Néonazi
Repeated harassment targetting specific users
Transphobia, Hate Speech, Nazi Symbology. Lack of Moderation.
Homophobia, transphobia
Hosting neonazis
transphobia / homophobia / racism / queerphobia / nazi combo instance???
Maybe it’s been a while but last I checked in the admin of poa.st was bragging about being homophobic
And the admins of Hexbear are relentlessly pro-CCP, implying that they’re homophobic.
I’m definitely not here to defend hexbear but have you scrolled their front page for even 10 seconds
As long as the pedo shit is blocked i dont see why u would want to defederate instead of letting each user block what they want. We need a user level federated blocklist.
Anything illegal posted on a remote server will bring legal trouble to you as a server admin the moment it federates onto your instance. Therefore I completely understand them defederating from instances with a high risk of illegal activity.
At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance’s users from your communities. If you’re constantly banning one instance’s users and their admins seem fine with it, there’s really no other way.
I wish I, an individual account, could defederate from instances, like some way to block all those instances’ users.
the lemmy devs added per user instance blocks a while ago. Check your settings page
IIRC that only blocks posts though, not comments :/
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t block the users; I blocked the NSFW Lemmy, whatever the big one is, because of how much porn would be on the All feed otherwise. I was surprised to see a post or comment from someone whose account was on that instance a few weeks ago, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t want to see so overall I was glad the users are still able to participate elsewhere if that’s what they want.
I don’t think that blocks the users, just the posts? Or does it block users also?
Because in order to block content, the user first has to see it. If I were an instance admin, I wouldn’t force my users to see any amount of N words and homophobic slurs, not even the once it takes to block it.
Hence tge need for a federated blocklist.
With a blocklist, the user is putting their trust in an unnamed group of people with essentially no accountability. With defederation, the user puts their trust in admins they can talk to, with a public modlog to explain every decision. You’re proposing to take the same amount of control away from users, but with less accountability.
They are both essentially the same thing except u decided to call one group of unnamed people Admins and suddenly they have responsibility and authority.
The difference, and the best part of the fediverse imho, is that if you’re not happy with someone elses rules you can become your own admin and set your own rules. The more we centralize power the further we go against that idea.
You can have the federated blocklist people named, decisions for adding to list public and explained. That way it would be the same as with admins
All that work just to make it the same as what we already have
I don’t think you got the idea of a federated blocklist the other person was talking about
Nah
Run your own instance then
That would be a seriously cool route to take
Looked at the list and did a bit of searching as well as checking the reasons they were defederated. Looks like the top one is basically a trolling group akin to GNAA or some of the proto 4chan or SomethingAwful shit for those who remember back that far.
I can understand why overt trolling and possibly illegal content would be defederated.
That said I would like to see more diverse opinions and sources on my Lemmy feed though. There has to be a base somewhere that isn’t literal nazis but isn’t open socialists either.
That said I would like to see more diverse opinions and sources on my Lemmy feed though. There has to be a base somewhere that isn’t literal nazis but isn’t open socialists either.
Please, this. Lemmy is boring as all hell. 95%+ of users have the same opinions. It’s a giant echo chamber.
You’re free to sub to whatever instances you want. You seem to be complaining about your own inaction.
I do sub to whatever instances I want. And sometimes I go to All. It’s called an observation. It’s ok when people say things you disagree with.
I didn’t disagree with anything.
I disagree.
What is varishangout…net? Initially read it as yarishangout.net and wondered why a space for Toyota Yaris owners got defedded. Also wondering how stereophonic.space got defedded?
Probably unmodded and open to automated signups leading to troll and bot infestations.
Can someone give me a brief rundown on what it means to be federated vs defederated? New to lemmy
Really basic summary
Federated means that instances are connected, i.e. lemmy.world accounts and posts can interact with sh.itjust.works ones.
Defederated means that one of the instances is blocked by the other, so all communication between the two is blacklisted.
Oh okay, that makes sense. And I’m assuming “Defederations” in the image is like the number of accounts in that defederated group?
It’s the number of instances that have blocked them.
Accounts can’t defederate afaik. There’s a way to block instances on some apps, but it’s client-side and really just hides posts from that instance.
Awesome, thanks for the explanation :) Now I’m curious as to what poa.st did/does to be so reviled
they’re pedophile nazis who do harassment campaigns against minorities basically
I don’t know the whole deal with them, but off the top of my head I know it’s a very far-right social media site that was fairly mainstream for a while. It got a lot of media coverage after getting hacked, so I guess a lot of people ended up blocking it once they heard of it.
I don’t know the full story. They were probably just a bunch of trolls like a lot of the other instances.
You thankfully appear to have not been exposed to a “proper” hexbear thread where all they can do to communicate is call you a shitlib for doing things like acknowledging genocide.
Do you have examples? I am not doubting, since I’ve seen loads of people saying it. But I’ve never come across it myself.
I have the entire instance blocked in my client, so I can’t even go searching for a thread for you. But if you don’t, it should be incredibly easy to poke the hexbear, so to speak. Lemme grab you a link…
Here, this one should work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
Find an appropriate sublemmy on Hexbear and post this, ideally in a context that explicitly declares you oppose genocide. You’ll get nothing but the following in your thread:
- Accusations that you are a “shitlib”. Any attempt by you to find out what this word means will result in additional mockery.
- Denials of the Uyghur genocide.
- Adoration of the CCP, especially Xi Jinping (but Hexbear likes any authoritarian tyrant in China, so any CCP politician may end up adulated).
I do agree that the hard left seems to enjoy using “liberal” as an insult, knowing that what most Americans interpret as “liberal” is different than the academic definition they use. It needlessly diverts the conversation and makes them think they’re superior.
Saying “shitlib” is even worse. Basically an adhom attack, not acceptable when the other party is being civil and respectful.
On #2 and #3, I don’t think that is relevant to the original accusation. Of course they will uphold their own views. But #1 is very valid. Though I wish to see examples of it because I have not.
.ml is the same
You mean like all the biden supporters on here defending his support for genocide?
The only things I know about Kiwifarms is that it was a federated instance and that Cloudflare got flak for not taking them down sooner.
Yeah? Can you provide even 1 example of someone on Hexbear posting something a) civil and b) not fascist?
https://hexbear.net/post/2648774?scrollToComments=false
Their top stickied post seems to be a biography of a 19th century French anarchist. That’s about as 10/10 wholesome chungus as it gets.
Past that, the front page is mostly full of screenshots of other social media posts mixed in with the occasional news item.
This guy is asking for help meeting people because he’s an introvert.
This is a meme about the Roman Empire being a vector for olive trees.
Like, this isn’t a difficult challenge.
Now I have to use a second account to visit the fine folks at #freecumextremist
Why is truthsocial.com so far down?
I think it doesn’t federate to begin with, so there’s no need to defed.
I think it is built using activitypub. Its essentially a mastodon server that has all incoming servers blocked.
That’s my understanding as well - Mastodon with the important part removed so it’s just a single server forum.
If it doesn’t federate, then who’s defederating it?
I’d guess because it’s a pump and dump scam designed to bilk gullible people?
lol. I’m pawoo user
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Decided to check it out to figure out what was going on. There’s ‘anime women look young’ and then there’s straight up lolicon. DO NOT the pawoo
Edit : There were also like celebrity deepfakes, but that really feels like an afterthought
ok
What’s the problem with blob.cat ?
