Posts like that encourage extremism. It pushes the lemmy.ml users who are normal out while angering and reinforcing the identity of the ones who are extreme.
if your community becomes more toxic when people leave it because other communities call it toxic…maybe its actually toxic.
IMO if I was running an instance it would have already defederated from ml instances.
It’s fine to defederate from them, for generally being bad actors. Nobody has to tolerate that and it drains the community from any influence.
The problem more stems from meme posts that serve no purpose but to strengthen their identity as a group of being toxic and publicly persecuted. Hate groups thrive with the attention under those conditions. Not saying they are one but that’s how they start forming.
if your community becomes more toxic when people leave it because other communities call it toxic…maybe its actually toxic.
IMO if I was running an instance it would have already defederated from ml instances.
It’s fine to defederate from them, for generally being bad actors. Nobody has to tolerate that and it drains the community from any influence.
The problem more stems from meme posts that serve no purpose but to strengthen their identity as a group of being toxic and publicly persecuted. Hate groups thrive with the attention under those conditions. Not saying they are one but that’s how they start forming.