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A while back I signed up to rammy.site a small lemmy instance run by a single person. It was a very nice instance, very stable and had pretty good access to other instances, or at least it used to. Recently though all of that has changed when the instance was taken over by far right-wing users from the right-wing instance known as exploding-heads, an instance which has been blocked by many others for the hateful content they post and the abusive behavior of its members. The reason that this was even allowed to happen was that the admin stopped moderating the server but left the server online, this is a problem because it means that anyone can hop onto the server and start posting whatever they want and create whatever communities they want and no-one can stop them.

There isn't much you can do to prevent going innactive but there are ways to mitigate what happened on rammy.site to prevent a full blown catastrophe like what has happened here. If you run a server and you are going to be going away for a while I'd recommend turning off account registration and community creation on your instance, that wouldn't prevent federated users and existing users from spamming existing communities but it would help against users joining the site and creating new communities which is what happened here on rammy.

I understand that it's not always possible to always be there to moderate your instance but you can at lease take steps to ensure that in your absence the instance won't be utterly decimated and/or used as a weapon to spread hatred or attack other instances.

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submitted 1 year ago by PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site to c/main@lemmy.ca

Hello I am writing this post to inform you that rammy.site has been taken over by far right-wing posters from exploding-heads. They have been posting extremely toxic transphobic content and climate denial and have also started posting onto other instances. They're using Rammy.site to spread their content from exploding-heads because it has been defederated by the bigger instances and are taking advantage of the fact that the admin isn't doing his duties to use it as a bridge to spread their hateful and abusive content to the rest of the fediverse. I know that some people think that I'm exagerrating or that I'm just making these posts because I "don't agree with what they're posting" but I'm not this is actually a very serious problem, go check the instance out for yourself if you don't believe me it has become just as bad if not worse than EH.

Also just to be clear this isn't a new idea, other instances have already Defederated rammy.site due to the current problems on the site:

I'm sure there are also plenty more that have as well or more that are going to.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 34 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world defederated EH a while back and now the same people from EH are posting wild on rammy.site, seems like a pretty cut and dry argument for defederation to me, if the admin were here and cleaning these posts and communities up that would be different but he's not and they're still here so best to treat is the same as EH because for all intents and purposes it is the same as EH.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 81 points 1 year ago

Defederation is not censorship. It is refusing to listen to or platform things that you don't agree with i.e. bigots or nazis. Lemmy.world has defederated exploding heads so it stands to reason that they wouldn't want to listen to the same assholes spewing the same crap on rammy.site

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Rammy.site has been overrun by bigots from exploding-heads they are posting transphobic content accusing LGBT people of being groomers and also posting climate denial. They're likely posting here because it is a small instance with an Admin who is currently MIA and/or not moderating the instance. For this reason it is imperative that it be defederated to stop these bigots from using it to spread their hate to other instances.

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Recently it has come to my attention that the instance where my account is located rammy.site has been taken over by right wing bigots from the site exploding-heads they have created many hateful communities and have started posting transphobic content and climate denial. There's also quite a bit of community spam on here.

I very strongly advocate that the admins of this instance defederate from rammy.site as soon as humanly possible to stop the spread of their toxic shit to other instances.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 38 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm not threatening you sweetie, I'm just saying that if you continue it's very likely the admins will ban you for being associated with these people, they may see you as a liability due to the fact that you're also a participant over on exploding-heads

Can't deny it, you said it yourself. Also I'm not sharing anything that wasn't already public knowledge, Federated DMs on Lemmy aren't secure any instance admins can see them, meaning any one with a PC capable of running docker can view your federated DMs.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 92 points 1 year ago

More like they're deliberately and intentionally trying to cause harm to people, they literally have a community dedicated to transphobia calling transgender people groomers.

It's one thing to disagree with someone, it's another to make disgusting accusations based on a person's orientation/identity. They're literally trying to say that all LGBT people are pedophiles because they disagree. How do you think that is okay?

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 31 points 1 year ago

You won't if the admins ban you for being associated with these bigots

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submitted 1 year ago by PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site to c/chat@lib.lgbt

This site has become overrun by bigots and nazis from exploding-heads looking to spread their hatred via this instance due to its lax or rather non existent moderation. The admin has not responded to calls for help he doesn't seem to be available.

If you don't believe me check the site, there are transphobic and climate denial posts on the front page here.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 63 points 1 year ago

No the aim is to keep Bigots and Nazis out of Lemmy.world by cutting off the instance they're using to propagate their toxic shit to the rest of the Fediverse. Honestly you sound just as toxic as them, maybe you should go hang out on their instance and not spread your toxicity here.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 14 points 1 year ago

It's not his instance though, he's not an admin he can't do anything about it.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 11 points 1 year ago

You'll no longer be able to retrieve content from the de-federated instance and they'll no longer be able to communicate with yours.

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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.

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Dear Admins of the Lemmy.world instance I am asking that you please consider defederating from the rammy.site instance as soon as possible as the admin is no where to be found and it has been taken over by right wing posters posting hateful messages. There are also other people posting large amounts of spam and creating empty communities. What was once a small hobby run general purpose instance has been turned over and made into a festering right wing hate filled breeding ground by the people from exploding-heads. The only recoarse left it seems is to defederate to prevent them from spreading hate to other instances.

PS. I already sent this message to multiple admins here, sorry about that I just felt it was urgent to make sure the message was sent before these people cause more damage.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 18 points 1 year ago

It's a shame it had to come to this, I liked rammy.site very stable and almost never goes out, why do bigots have to ruin everything for us...

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 36 points 1 year ago

You know even though this is my home instance I fully support you defederating from it, I'd rather move to another instance than than have these assholes posting transphobic bullshit be allowed to come and harass the wonderful people here on lemmy.blahaj.zone as they please.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 13 points 2 years ago

No you aren't weird, gender identity isn't defined by a person's gender conformity or lack there of. Wear whatever makes you feel comfortable, don't worry about it making you one thing or another.

If you have any doubts about your gender identity you should by all means question. I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm saying the idea that you should wear what you want without worrying so much about what it makes you. You should identify in a way that feels right for you, that's what gender identity is based on, not whether some piece of cloth is semantically considered feminine or masculine.

It was very nice of your sister to give you her old clothes.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 17 points 2 years ago

I remember being told similar things by my "friends" in school due to me being a femboy who wears girl's clothes, and also for being gay, they used a similar argument with me when I would respond to their questions about why I don't want to be a girl because I didn't know then a better way to respond and I wasn't aware of what they were doing to me. They also teased me for being gay telling me "boys aren't attracted to other boys". I'm very glad I found better friends, those people weren't really my friends, they treated me like dirt.

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