I recently noticed this lemmy instance in my all feed. They have an odd premise in their instance sidebar:
We are a down to earth instance who doesn’t get our feelings hurt or offended easily.
And then, on their front page today, there are some links to breitbart and some to russia today. When calling them out on that, I got this comment from their instance:
about as believable as calling trump nazi, you really sound fascistic imo
Is this some kind of right-wing instance? Should we defederate from it?
Is this some kind of right-wing instance?
Yes.
Should we defederate from it?
Yes.
Everyone knows what they are, but contrary to other right wing instances, they managed to fly under the radar. Admins usually aren’t that triggerhappy when it comes to defederating and there is a good reason for that. Just give it some time. Like every other right wing “community” in the history of the internet, they will do something incredibly vile which will be the end of them.
Edit: Looks like my instance already defederated from them. LOL
They’ve gone back on their descision, I wonder why, it’s well known to be an Exploding-Heads clone and EH was defederated by Lemmy.world in the past. I mean their users basically admit to it being an EH clone so I don’t understand why it was reversed.
CC LW admins: @Rooki@lemmy.world @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world @kersploosh@lemmy.world @Xylinna@lemmy.world @MichelleG@lemmy.world @jelloeater85@lemmy.world
Lemmy.world did defederate from exploding-heads, but never defederated from hilariouschaos as far as I know. When hilariouschaos appeared the admin team discussed it and decided to take a wait-and-see approach. First, some of the more problematic exploding-heads users seemed to be gone. Second, by that time Lemmy had more blocking options for users to curate their own feeds, so instance-level defederation seemed less urgent.
We will discuss it again. Personally, it’s been a while since I have peeked over the fence to see what they’re up to over there.
but never defederated from hilariouschaos as far as I know.
I just checked my filter and I don’t have them blocked. So I guess something glitched out when I went there using the browser? Possibly on my end.
I believe it arose from the ashes when a different conservative leaning instance shut down, though I can’t remember which one off the top of my head.
I’ve also rarely seen a post there that I found engaging in one way or another. That’s all I know.
It was exploding heads. They ran off to nostr then changed their mind.
