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The lemmy.ml Problem
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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I think dissenting views is helpful in a community, even crazy psychotic and editorialized views.
If instances defederate just because they have different viewpoints is going to get really lonely in the fediverse.
A more generalized rules of cooperative federation would be a better solution then doing a case by case debate. I.e.
Instances we federate with must have a clearly defined moderation policy at the instance level
Any user banning at the instance level must follow the published moderation policy
Just the basics.
It's not so much that they have dissenting views, but rather that they throw the ban hammer around for anyone remotely suggesting that they have a really skewed perception of history and that they are actively disseminating propaganda and engaging in historical revisionism. The post that OP mentioned illustrates that very well, and those are things that have happened on .ml for months now.
I agree about the instance level moderation policy, and I'd like for the LW team to take it up with the ML admins. But at the same time, we should seriously consider defederating in the case that they are unwilling to compromise.
This is why federation should have a standard that needs to be followed. Been saying that for a year now.
Instance level administration/moderation has an effect on the democratic system that is the backbone of the entire federation. We can choose not to federate all their actions, but it still has an effect on instance A when something isn't visible on instance B and instance B visitors can not not vote on it. It skews the outcomes for everyone.
So there should be a standard for federated instances to administer and moderate fairly and honestly, in line with established and public rules.
It's not that their views are diffrent they straight up lie. And if you call them out, you get banned from all communitys and silenced in any way possible.
They do not have a clearly defined moderation policy, they are flagrantly banning any dissenters to their political views from communities unrelated to the posts in question. Allowing them to grow more power in the space by keeping them federated with other large instances is a bad thing imo.
No, crazy psychotic views are not helpful to a community.
It's not "dissenting views," it's authoritarian propaganda.