There’s that weird place discussed by the other instance’s admin here:

https://lemy.lol/post/17093789

It’s a small nitherlandian instance that automated posting of christian testimonies (30k+, basically a youtube crawler by keywords, updated hourly) in one community and others are filled with conspiralogical content. Maybe they had their place somewhere before?

Haven’t seen a direct bigotry at a quick glance (closing my eyes on muslims finding christian Jesus-posts), but it looks like spreading conspiracies and serving as an ad for a cult. Is that against our rules? They sometime showed in my feed too. And they are an outright spam entity having 30k posts for like 50 users.

I think that’s either a sectarian indocrination or someone being very ill in the head.

I vouch for defederating them and maybe contacting them if they need personal support.

It’s exactly what some of youtubers would do a write up about a year after.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for this long-form answer of yours.

    Seems like my position gets it’s bashing even before voting. And it’s not an issue worth leaving or whatever. I wanted to know what everyone think about it, even if I myself biased against it.

    1. It’s not even my hatred against religion, but the defenition of a harmful content. For me these videos of ‘finding their God’ is the entry content, like a first cigarette, a natural invitation. I’d argue having a public stall with that content in our mall is not great.

    2. Another problem is that they joined the Fediverse with that archive instead of making a dedicated website. Can’t blame them for being, probably, just a hobbyist. Either they added other communities around this archive, or they thought to host this archive after that, it’s a little weird they didn’t think it would be seen by many others. Or they wanted it? Either way, I find isolating this collection is a good thing. It should’ve probably happened on their end.

    3. Offending materials can be avoided by individuals, np, yet we don’t usually write ublock filters ourself. We choose lists of rules in order to optimize our efforts. Instead of every person finding a way to block that ad banner, one person does it and helps other save time.

    It all comes down to how universal the despise to that said banner and if you trust someone to choose it for you. As I see, both despise isn’t that universal and users don’t want their feed to be dictated over such a thing. I accept that.

    As Lemmy proved it’s there to stay, I’d like to see how the discourse of policies and defed\refed processes would go. This being not one Reddit but a threadball of many teams and userbases makes it interesting.