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Hi, someone posted this on another server. I'd like to request we defederate with rammy.site and exploding-heads.com as well. I scrolled through some of their posts and comments and it's full of ridiculous anti-left propaganda, for example a post where some liberal Florida family fleeing the state when some child protection laws got passed, implying liberals abuse children and won't live in a state that doesn't allow them to. Just take a look for yourself.

" Admins of Lemmy.ml please consider defederating from rammy.site it has been taken over by right wing malicious actors from exploding-heads.com and the admin is nowhere to be found.

It is imperative that you take action as soon as possible the users on rammy are using the site to spread their messages to a further audience, we must nip this in the bud. If you don't believe me check the instance for yourself, you'll see it dominated with bigoted right wing posts and spam communities."

Edit: So many commenters think this is about political opinions or disagreement. It's not. If I said "Mixing bleach and ammonia is good for you" I bet some of you would call that a political disagreement.

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not in favor of defederating over political preference at all. I don't come to this instance expecting an echo chamber, and an echo chamber is precisely what I do not want.

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not political difference, it's disinformation and propaganda. Just look, even if you're conservative you should be able to see how messed up it is unless you lack critical thinking skills

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmygrad.ml is also full of propaganda and nobody seems to be trying to defederate it.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

lemmygrad is actually pretty far up the rankings in the defederated-by stats I saw a couple weeks ago 😅

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

Whether people have a right to exist or have basic human rights is not political preference. And disinformation is in direct conflict with free and open knowledge and learning.

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I should have removed the word "conservative" in my post. Oh wait, I didn't use the word conservative. This isn't political, but if you took it to be political, that would imply to me that you consider spreading false information to be part of the conservative platform.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or maybe it's because the instance and content the entire discussion is about is clearly republican/conservative propaganda disinformation?

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why does that make it political? If it was liberal disinformation and propaganda, or communist disinformation and propaganda, or Russian state sponsored disinformation and propaganda, it's still not a political choice.

Acting like this is political just seems like a guise to say "no I support this propaganda and disinformation campaign so let me call it political speech instead of what it is"

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Disinformation is contrary to the stated mission of SDF. The request is no more political than the SDF organization itself.