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As a mod, what are the rules in regards to leftist/socialist communities and posts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm a mod of [email protected], and the last resort preemptive defederation from hexbear has me concerned. As a mod, what are the specific rules that I need to know about to make sure our community fits the guidelines of LemmyWorld? We aren't a huge community and there aren't a huge number of posts every day, but I want to see this community grow and thrive. I can't do that without knowing the guidelines hexbear violated to warrant defederation. We're focused on left unity, so I need to know what we can't allow.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

How does everyone miss the part that hexbear is intending to build bots that mass vote and troll other instances and their communities by exploiting the way federation works?

What the duck is wrong with people. They explicitly said they were building a bot network that couldn't be blocked except through defederation... I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Don't make bots to break other instances and destroy their communities. Problem solved. You won't get banned or defederated.

Edit: my source is the announcement post. Half of the linked comments for justification were about brigading and bots.

Edit2: it looks like most of the hexbear comments about brigading and bot building were deleted or made private. I don't have the energy to go through their modlog.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Where did they mention building a bot network?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Source?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Hey could you link that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Please link a source. I haven’t been able to find anything about this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Wasn't that never actually followed through though?