I just saw that lemmy.ml has pre-emptively defederated from threads. Are there any plans to do that here? I personally want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook, and I’m sure that’s not an unpopular opinion around here.

edit: y’all, please pay attention to where you are when coming from all.

edit again: kbin really ought to make a post’s home instance more clear.

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I'm personally opposed to defederation in all but the most extreme circumstances.

    Can you define ‘extreme circumstances’?

    Is literal nazi propaganda extreme enough? Because you can already find it on Threads.

    I was actually thinking of suggesting a defederation policy be drafted, so that we can have clear circumstances under which we would or would not defederate

    That I agree with. Instances should have it layed it out clearly.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean it depends on how much and how it is being managed. Unfortunately, nazi propaganda is prevalent in many societies, so I don’t think it will be possible to have a platform be completely free from it, excepting very small, isolated communities. I can find it on posters outside my house, but that clearly doesn’t reflect the views of the vast majority of people in my neighborhood. It’s here on Lemmy as well. I don’t think that alone warrants some kind of quarantine policy, if those views are being actively opposed and/or removed. If an instance is operating as a safe haven for those views to fester and spread then that may warrant defederation if it is causing serious harm to federated communities.