Yesterday, lemmy.blahaj.zone announced their defederation from lemmynsfw.com and argued that lemmynsfw don’t care enough about CSAM.
- announcement: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1204784
- response: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/418317
Although I think lemmynsfw is right about this, that’s not the point. I believe lemmy.blahaj.zone is an instance caught in the positivity echo chamber (to put it more roughly, circle jerk).
You can never interact negatively with their decisions or thoughts. Downvotes disabled. Admin literally removing any opposing view while keeping positive ones.
Check this comment: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1336587
Admin removed the comment while keeping reply of it and commenting with Exactly this. Dear friend, we don’t know the main comment so how can we agree any of them?
IDK. I think it is very annoying for an instance built on diversity to have such reactions. Is it just me thinking like that? Am I the stupid one here?
Note: Posting this here so admins won’t be able to remove.
Edit: I guess I should add this. IDC should they defederate or not. I just don’t liked their behaviour.
I get what you’re saying, but your more generous interpretation is the same kind of interpretation that allowed watern-----s to exist under incredibly thin cover so they could use racial slurs without scrutiny. Were they an explicitly racist sub? No. Were most people on it racist? Probably not. But did it provide an incredibly easy haven for racists to dogwhistle around? Yes.
They actually were pretty strict at moderating anything that was racist, which was why it was such an interesting flashpoint. The admins obviously had a shit storm with the people who felt context is irrelevant and that word is unacceptable at any time, but they couldn’t point to any moderated content that was racist.
Kinda sucks because it was a super interesting practical case study around language, racism, what moderation can look like within a context where racism is LIKELY to occur… Which I think is actually really important. “Burn it to the ground” is not a practical solution to the possibility of racism entering a discussion… Simply because in certain important discussions it is INEVITABLE and with that approach the conversations simply can not be had.
It’s also in stark contrast to the moderation of blackPeopleTwitter where you need to physically prove you are “black enough” via pictures sent to the moderation team, where you are adjudicated for blackness (on flaired posts).
It’s complicated, and waterni–as was an interesting and fresh approach. It absolutely tapped into some kind of zeitgeist because of its explosive growth, and it was demonstrably NOT predicted on racism.
We did ourselves a disservice by failing to take to understand the nature of that zeitgeist.
BPT was one of the most racist subs I ever tried to participate in. I honestly hate all spaces run by authoritarians though.