Not sure how to report entire communities, but https://lemm.ee/c/vaccines just opened up and it’s a troll forum for vaccine misinformation.
How do I report !religiouscringetards@lemmy.world ?
Since you are on lemmy.world and that community it also on lemmy.world you would need to address it on that instance. This is the meta community for lemm.ee so I’m sure our admins won’t even review it. I briefly looked at that community though and it looks to be mostly a meme/joke community with an unfortunate name. I doubt if Ruud or anyone would do anything but maybe the mods would agree to rename it if that’s what your concern is.
Not a fan of some of the rhetoric and sourcing either but why not let them be? I never understood why it’s so important to silence these people if they don’t have any credibility anyways.
If they doxx or dogpile, sure, intervene, but they’re just posting links and having discussions among themselves.
The TL;DR is they think other people are dumb and stupid and can’t think for themselves, and take it upon themselves to police speech online. How can people keep from being deceived if not for the hallowed hall monitor! After all, the people calling for censorship are never wrong about what’s true and what’s not!
If problematic groups are in echo chambers, they affirm each other. For example many ex-racists said that interacting people outside their hate bubble was the first step to get better.
In addition, wrong information also affects the passersby, who might not be active participants. It takes a lot more resources to correct knowledge with facts than it takes to spam disinformation and it slowly sticks.
So bursting bubbles and purging fake content seems like a viable solution.
And you’d rather haven them join Parlor/Truthsocial/whatever or just spend even more time on uncensored Youtube alternatives where they’re even less likely to encounter opposing opinions?
Isolating people and opinions by driving them into ever smaller circles of influences sounds like something Steve Bannon and his peers would approve most of.
What ever happened to “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”? I think you need to realize that echo chambers of misinformation are a symptom, not a cause. Fighting the echo chambers but not the root causes of what pushes people there only emboldens them and leads to more polarization.
I think humanity left that behind around this accelerated polarization when they noticed that it takes zero effort to spam what is wrong and magnitudes of limited resources to do the correcting.
And if everyone just defends “yeah it’s ok to spread that even though it’s not right” we see the accelerationism growing.
The effect on internet platforms isn’t important to the 9 % commenting, it’s to the rest who don’t engage. They browse, they see things which aren’t real. Some they dismiss, some they don’t, but they all have an effect on their subconscious.
Of course the root cause should be sorted as well, it’s just that this is also a known issue with massive harm to prevent
There is absolutely no positive thing about keeping a deliberate disinformation platform alive. They exist to disinform other people, not themselves, and their aim is even more sinister than “just” disinforming about vaccines, because these places serves as fascist pipelines.
We all have intentions and motives behind what we post, don’t we? And we’re all just repeating what we’ve read or heard from other people, right? Very few of us were actually there in the moments things were done or decided. The rest of us are just repeating what we’ve been told, including me and you. We always have downvotes. We can follow or block communities on an individual level. However, deleting content based on your own perspective is silencing someone else’s voice or opinion and goes against basic human rights.
It’s the exact same idea as removing history or destroying literature. The bad is just as valuable as the good and we learn from them both. By censoring what you have determined is bad, you are silencing someone’s voice and permanently stealing someone else’s ability to see the full picture.
That’s very inspiring of you but the instance admin is still the admin and can do whatever he wants because he pays the bills. If the admin says “no banana for scale” then it is.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !vaccines@lemm.ee
It’s up, I can see the content (mostly it’s just complaining about Joe Biden who is clearly a master conspiratist).
For real. I just had the misfortune of looking at that cesspit for about 45 seconds and I feel like I need a shower.
There is nothing if value there whatsoever.
That community was horrific and I’m really glad it was dealt with, but this raises some big-picture moderation questions that will need to be answered moving forward. For example: What is the difference between sharing an extreme opinion v.s. sharing misinformation/disinformation on lemm.ee? Unless admins make an executive decision in the meantime, I think it would be useful to have a productive discussion on criteria for content like this because there will hands down be more situations like this down the road.
