A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered "illegal" content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least.
Marijuana is considered an illegal substance in some states in the US and is still federally illegal. /c/trees should be banned, correct?
Clown pictures of Putin are absolutely considered illegal in Russia, so that should require and immediate ban.
Freedom of speech can also be considered illegal in some places.
Incest is considered illegal so that should automatically trigger a ban on all incest porn, real or not. Hell, porn is universally taboo, so that shouldn't have any place on this instance, I guess.
You see where I am going with this? Rule 1 is a catch-all and needs clarification. Simply saying something is illegal is not quite enough. Owning and sharing pictures of shrooms is not illegal. Trading spores or mycelium is generally not illegal either.
This is not about me being salty (which I am) about the community being removed and forced to relocate. It's the odd bias that was applied to justify its removal.
Please note that I said fix Rule 1, not remove it. There are some really bad things on the internet that shouldn't use lemmy as a safe haven.
To be clear, this is an instance choice. You can still find drug friendly instances and subscribe to the communities.
...But then, you risk e.g. lemmy.world and other big instances defederating from your new instance. Lemmy has some design problems.
If we were talking about defederating from instances that promote pedophilia, would you still consider it a shitty feature?
Federation, or defederation, is kind of the core of a federated platform. Having different instances with different rules would make moderation impossible if defederation did not exist, maybe not in most cases but at the very least when it comes to fringe groups having their own instances.
You can have multiple accounts across multiple instances. Just don't reuse passwords because rogue admins can set up their web interface to just give them plaintext passwords (and possibly also do that through other clients, depending on how the protocol handles passwords).