FINAL UPDATE

@bdonvr, admin of The Lemmy Club has, in my opinion, responded in good faith to the concerns raised in this post, and so I have withdrawn my proposal for defederation. In summary:

  1. They will no longer be allowing conservative/right wing communities on their instance
  2. A couple of accounts were banned ( marathon and Bernard )
  3. “realcaseyrollins decided to voluntarily close /c/news@thelemmy.club, /c/censorshipnews@thelemmy.club, and /c/opeds@thelemmy.club.”

Personally, I think this is just about the ideal outcome, and I hope this will convince folks to give The Lemmy Club another chance.

The Lemmy Club is currently suffering from “The Nazi Bar” problem. All of their top communities are run by three right-wingers as illustrated below.

The Lemmy Club instance admin doesn’t seem to want to ban them, for the reasons mentioned below:

This vote is on whether or not we should defederate from this instance until they address their Nazi Bar problem.

Upvote = for defederation. Downvote = against defederation.

Edit: As others have mentioned, happy to treat this a only a temporary measure until the problem is resolved.

Edit 2: The Lemmy Club admin has said they will implement a rule against right wing communities, and has taken action on some problematic posts and users (see original comments below).

I’m willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the admin here, as they have responded in good faith:

If you implement those changes then I’d be willing to withdraw the defederation proposal and consider the problem resolved.

  • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    18 days ago

    The problem is all your top communities are run by these right wing guys. I know you probably don’t want to have to trawl through every post, and neither do I. But shit attracts flies.

    You should be made aware, for example, that the user who posted this https://thelemmy.club/post/23635160 and this https://thelemmy.club/post/23387257 in “Right Wing Videos” is a literal neo-nazi (see his Mastadon post profile here: https://friends.ravergram.club/@Bernard). I’m sure if we dig around some more there will be many more examples.

    Unfortunately we can see where things are headed because we already had to deal with instances like exploding heads. I think that, while the mods themselves seem well behaved enough to not get reported, they are effectively acting as cover for the more unsavoury characters that right wing instances invariably attract.

    Unless you want to spend all your time checking those communities, I just think you’re better off without them. You are right that jumping straight to a defed vote is a bit harsh maybe, but I think if we just blocked the communities then there would be no real pressure on you to take any further action, and personally I think it would be better for the fediverse to not have right wing content platformed.