was trying to find out if we are intentionally defederated, I don’t see any hilariouschaos communities showing up in the Blahaj search, so I assume they aren’t federated - just not sure why and was hoping to learn the lore 😅

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    21·
    15 days ago

    We are defederated, because hilariouschaos is the reborn version of exploding heads and wolfballs. It’s toned down compared to them, but it’s still the home to communities dedicated to Turning Point, and communities trying to replicate “The Donald” etc.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      Thanks Ada - this was really helpful context.

      For others and myself, here’s the evidence presented about it being an exploding heads community: https://hilariouschaos.com/comment/9332

      The community also doesn’t remove transphobic posts, e.g. tahira’s transphobic posts haven’t been removed, and Alice (the instance admin) only asked tahira to ease up on the “trans stuff” to keep things “chill and open for everyone”.

      Still trying to find evidence about the admins being transphobes themselves - having a harder time finding that (maybe it was an admin that left?).

      For what it’s worth, the community is pretty quiet and most of the content does not seem to be right-wing, though there is a conservative community there with a single user that posts regularly there. (But just leaving the transphobic content up is enough to warrant defederation from Blahaj; the question about the community’s character is more relevant for other instances considering defederation.)

      Thank you Ada for having standards and protecting the community 🫶