cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7849011

before people criticize me I am not using my main account because I do not feel safe bringing up these issues there, as these people and issues still are not dealt with. I do not want to put myself in danger, I will not be engaging in or attempting to post polls or votes here.

I would like to start by saying that I’ve noticed a lot of bad faith or spammy communities pop-up recently. The user is dramaticcat many of the communities break rules 1 and 2, maybe even rule 3 (an example of one such community is !kiwifarms@sh.itjust.works) as they are purely dedicated to hatred, trolling, and possibly even spam.

Also a small handful of users have also been making threats or calls to violence and while these have been moderated nicely moderators and external instance admins the admins of this instance haven’t done anything about this. This is worrying as admins are supposed to enforce the instance rules and remove disruptive users and communities who are in violation of said rules but the admins of Sh.itjust.works have not been doing that. This is a problem because it means that any malicious actor could join at any time and wreak havok on this instance just like Exploding-heads did on another unmoderated instance known as rammy.site way back when. We obviously know how that went.

It’s important that we discuss this problem now while we might have a chance of contacting the admins rather than later when the damage has been done.

  • giacomo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Let’s defederate from everyone everywhere and bring this experiment to an end as there will always be mean and ugly people somewhere on the internet.

    • Rosethewitch8345@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      Ooh baseless strawman arguments, my favorite, you will notice that this post is not calling for or asking anywhere for defederation, but that’s what happens when think and speak before you read.

      Or you assume that everyone on this forum is calling for it because you prefer to lash out at people than to listen to them because you don’t like or are bored by discussion of real issues.

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        1 year ago

        I assume people on this forum only want to interact with people they agree with. I assume lemmy is going to sprinter into echo chambers and be real boring.

        I don’t give a shit what you are or are not calling for. Merely a comment.