Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone StarlightDust @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4d ago

Lemm.ee Conservative Community has had an Elon Nazi salute post up for two days now.

lemmy.blahaj.zone /post/21955972

IDK about other people but it makes me feel sick to the stomach being federated with such content. I don't really have any problems with Lemm.ee as a whole but I feel like having an uncritical Nazi salute on the network goes against everything Blahaj stands for.

Meta (lemm.ee) @lemm.ee almost1337 @lemm.ee 3d ago

It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required

lemmy.blahaj.zone /post/21955972

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Lemm.ee admin here. Sorry about that, y'all. We took further action and removed the mods from that community. More context in my post here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22091983/12982889
I just saw a report on it and I've removed the post.
- Thanks. My concern is being federated with such a community in the first place. It is a shame there isn't a community-wide way to block just one community from an instance.
  
  I can do that. The fact the mods left it up for so long is reason enough
I think we dont need conservative communities on lemmy, we can do without them
- I think modern conservatism is a sign of deficient cognitive ability and lack of empathy, but I don’t think we should outright block them. That’s the sort of thing they advocate. If they’re celebrating a nazi salute, sure. Let’s get rid of them. But we should be better than they. Of course, this makes me sound like a lib when I’m actually a Leftist, but I’m just trying not to discriminate.
  
  Rightwing people: you suck for delivering us this living hell.
  
  The biggest issue is that EVERY community they've formed in the past has ended up as nothing more than an echo chamber for them to justify their OWN views and eventually censoring ANY form of external input.
  
  maybe the key is forcing them to interact with regular people who don't like them, idk. i'm old and tired and getting older and tireder by the day. just force them to face consequences for their bullshit over and over until they get it. make a shitty community? disband the community. make a shitty meme? remove the shitty meme. be a shitty person? ban the shitty person.
- I’m ok with conservatives that aren’t conspiracy-driven. They can’t seem to self-moderate though. Anti-vax, and odd religious beliefs that they choose to impose on others is where I would draw the line.
  
  Lots of people on the AskConservatives sub reddit for instance are against a lot of what has occurred in the last month.
  
  I don’t know how to possibly moderate a community like that.
  
  Are you OK with conservatives that are anti-LGBT+, for example? Conservative is an umbrella that includes a lot of bigotry, I'm not sure we should really pretend that is worth defending or tolerating, particularly with regards to the context of the pro-LGBT+ Blahaj instance, who hosts many people who are victimized by conservative ideology. Sure, conservative lemmy instances exist, but you are in the Blahaj meta community, and the question is how we should relate to those communities and instances that oppose our existence ...
  
  I'm not. They're the ones outlawing abortion and trying to eliminate trans people. They're the ones that are okay with discrimination and bigotry. They're the ones okay with rounding up immigrants and sending them to camps. There is no reason to tolerate their intolerance and their ideology is based upon oppressing anyone that isn't male, rich, and white.
  
  Conservatism is inherently anti-trans. I’d rather not have anyone on lemmy argue against my right to self determination.
- .world also has a Conservative comm just as disgusting as the .ee one
  
  I don't know why neither has been removed, in both comms nearly every single post is well into the negatives haha
  
  Pretty sure a majority of .world blocks them or hate downvotes them.
  
  I just reported that there's no moderation on that community.
That tracks.
- Is lemm.ee conservative? I had no idea....... not sarcasm
  
  Less conservative and more... Allows different opinions as long as they aren't outright dangerous.
  
  Plenty of left leaning people on lemm.ee, myself included. Conservatives chose to make a community here because they felt it was a good place for freedom of speech, which it is. If you choose to create a socialist community, you're welcome too. If you're a tankie and say everyone from the Baltics deserves to be raped to death for leaving the Soviet union... Then we do not welcome you.
  
  Uhh I'm in the same boat... I wouldn't call myself a "conservative" ... I just was looking for an instance that wasn't completely full. If there's some Nazi shit going on here, I'm out.
There's an ancient mod who doesn't post anymore, a bot, and a fascist mod. That's who they are now.
There is conservative community? On Lemmy?????
- Several, just not very active.
  
  That's how it starts
  
  what are conservatives doing on Lemmy anyways??
I try not to block the conservative communities, but they have been extra obnoxious lately. I guess people are finding Lemmy, and with them come humans.
- would love if you shared your blocklist with me, so I can block any I haven't already 😄
I really thought all the blahaj communities were heavily left leaning. What was the community?
- That’s not a blahaj community. It’s hosted on another instance.
  
  In any case, the mods and poster are banned now, and the community has been blocked
  
  the mods and poster are banned now, and the community has been blocked
  
  Huzzah!
- I believe OP is talking about /c/conservative on the lemm.ee instance (not sure if I can share this, not intending to brigade, and I am intentionally not directly linking there)
  
  Oh okay, because the way it’s formatted I thought it was a blahaj community and was really surprised

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