Defederating was the right call. The_Donald is being hosted on sh.itjust.works.
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The admin of sh.itjust.works has been approached but as of yet has failed to reply to concerned Lemmy users. I’m glad Beehaw admins look out for us by cutting off instances that host communities like this.
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Just to temper the backlash a bit. The community has 10 members, and is being brigaded/downvoted by the sh.itjust.works community at large. Whether or not they should allow it as admins is a fair question. But it seems clear, at least for now, the wider sh.itjust.works community isn't on board. I still hope to re-federate with them some day when moderator tools are better, and federation can be more granular.
No kidding, everything is heavily downvoted and 99% of the posts are incredibly lazy memes by its creator, 'LEFTWINGTEARS', who beyond the name and banal posts, has a meme that was already tired years ago as their user img.
Kinda seems like a stretch to even say that that community is being hosted there, given it's almost entirely just one very bored person. (Would be surprised if they were even 16 years old.)
Over here on kbin.social, I simply blocked that community as soon as I heard about it and now the only indication I have of its existence is threads like this one.
Definitely this. Blocking communities is the way to go for community problems. Defederation is for server-wide problems (like the management of bot swarms, which I hope to be a temporary issue and that re-federation will happen as soon as it is resolved)
But isn't that a slippery slope? If bigotry is tolerated under the mantra of "just block it", then it shows other even worse things that they have a potential home. Actual CP, extreme gore, whatever.
Give them a proverbial inch, and they'll take a mile.
That's the thing. You can't do anything but block it. Even banning is just blocking. It's not like you're going over where they live with a rifle and pumping a few rounds into them and their children. Defederation is blocking an entire server. Sh.itjust.works has like 6000 people. Defederating the entire server over one dude with 2 accounts shitposting for attention is a bit extreme in my opinion. However! This is not my instance, and beehaw is the most ban-happy instance I've seen, so I guess you do you lol.
Someone is defensive.
I think this implies a server-wide problem actually; that a community like this could exist there, and that it isn't an immediate, burning problem for the people in that server.
None of us were really happy about it. This is all I've seen about it actually.