I saw talk of them being federated with instances like “exploding heads” (literal neo-nazis) and “posting lolis rocks”, along with having interactions from users there. Is that true? idk how to check for that, I can only just barely stumble around the normal forum interface.
If so, why? They’ve been going hard on purging communists user-by-user and comment-by-comment, which seems like a little bit of a secondary concern to nazis and pedos, especially something as simple as just blocking the instances at the very least. What’s going on over there?
What I mentioned, if it is correct, might not be exhaustive, I’m just repeating what I heard about.
Edit: Correction, exploding heads are closer to being latter-day blue checks, complete garbage but not as pressingly bad as the other site.
Oh, you might be interested to know that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are also federating with the lolicon one, which appears to be a Mastodon instance. Both of those have blocked the exploding-heads one, though. This is probably also due to the default open federation policy. You could talk with the instance admins about it.
It’s pretty cool that federation (& blocking) information is public! In any event, there’s no point in “repeating what you heard about”, which is to say “playing Telephone with speculations”, when we can all just see the facts:
https://lemmy.world/instances
https://lemmy.ml/instances
https://lemmygrad.ml/instances
Like I said, I didn’t know how to actually check, which is why I asked as I did. Thanks for letting me know that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad don’t have the other one blocked, I will dm their admins about that. If you’re a user in good standing, I’d suggest asking your own instance admins about not blocking these two.
I DM’d a lemmygrad admin, next I’ll do so for lemmy.ml now that I can access the site again.