I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.
The post did not necessarily convince me to block the HC instance, but the instance admin of it coming in here to combat every comment critical of the instance sure has lol.
Same - just defederated them from Feddit.dk. What actually convinced me to defederate was this comment. That kind of “hands off” moderation approach just seems irresponsible to me.
Tak :)
Hmm, I’m still new to Lemmy. How do I block an instance?
But their chaos is so hilarious 😐
Some apps can block instances iirc. But unfortunately lemmy’s actual instance filter is busted as shit.
I opened an issue about this, so we’ll be getting it in 1.0/1.1.0.
If you use an app like Voyager, you can block entire instances. There are also web interfaces that allow it as well.
This was news to me and super helpful! In the Voyager app, go to Settings > Filters & Blocks. There will be a section called “Blocked Instances” and a button that says “Add Instance”. Click the button, and there is a search suggestion box, so you just type “hil” and the first result is “hilariouschaos.com” and you can just click that result and you’re done!
But doesn’t doing that in Voyager simply apply the base Lemmy instance block? If so then it merely mutes communities from it, but doesn’t block users from the instance from posting, commenting, responding, sending DMs, etc.
It’s not nothing, but it falls far short of expectations, especially for something called by that name.
Unfortunately you really can’t, not trivially I mean. Also, lemm.ee’s whole schtick is that they don’t defederate from anyone.
- There is a “instance block” in Lemmy, but horribly misnamed as all it does is mute communities but still allows users to troll you from the instance in other communities, such as this one
- Move to PieFed, which allows true blocking of all users from an instance, without needing admin approval
- Stay on Lemmy and switch to either the Sync or Connect app - I’ve not heard of any others that can do this but if someone knows of one please tell me?
- Ask your instance to defederate from them - except for Lemm.ee that’s extremely unlikely to happen
- Switch to another instance that has already done so
- Develop a web browser filter, probably using something like Ublock
- Create your own instance, and then you can deferate anyone you want
Lemmy is fairly authoritian for non-admin end-users, but we use what is provided to us (which is why I’m ecstatically happy with the more fully featured PieFed!:-).
Its not that .ee doesn’t defed, they’re just more careful about it.
For example, check lemm.ee/instances compared to lemmy.today/instances.
I saw someone say that Hilarious Chaos is just a rebranding of Exploding Heads and it started making sense as to why it looked so familiar. I blocked them.
Well that someone was simply wrong. HC is not a rebrand of anything, we just don’t censor based on political lines.
Anyone is welcome to start any kind of community they wish on HC and moderate as they see fit, within instance rules.
False chucklefuck the clown banned me because I called out their hypocrisy
Lol. You are making this argument…in a thread showing actual proof that you censor based on political lines.
Ever heard of the Streisand Effect??? Idiot.
Tbf, they said that the instance doesn’t censor based on political lines, while on the other hand the communities on it can “moderate as they see fit”.
It’s a loophole.
Possibly still worth defederating, but not based solely on the comment you responded to.
So where do we petition to add them to the mass defederation list with exploding heads?
Wait, isn’t kbin.melroy.org a kbin rebrand of the exploding heads Lemmy instance?
You are fucking pathetic.
Didn’t know much about hilariouschaos, but it’s definitely an instance I will be blocking after reading this thread. Any instance willing to put up with nazis should be shunned and other instances should defederate from them.
Edit: Apparently I already blocked the instance when I joined lemmy. Go figure.
They’re a troll instance. Think 4Chan but without the wit.
You are spreading lies, HC does not put up with nazis. You will notice that nobody can seem to find any nazi content, despite claims that we are literally a nazi bar.
You’re missing the point.
The “Nazi bar” analogy has nothing to do with literal Nazis except by way of explanation. People tried to explain this to you already.
The point is, when you allow people into your space who nobody wants anything to do with (and specifically because they will tend to attack those people and also they believe they are subhuman), you have decided that your space will be only for those people. Because everyone else will leave. If you don’t want that to happen, don’t let those people into your space. Up to you.
Tagging on this comment so people can see. HC is not exploding heads remastered lol idk why you ppl are obsessed with wanting it to be. I guess y’all are hard pressed on wanting an enemy or something? And that’s what I don’t understand.
I’m jumping in here to pretty much explain what HC is and why it was created. (Alice site admin here)
Let’s clear a few things up about HilariousChaosHC.
I know some of you are under the impression that Hilarious Chaos is somehow tied to Exploding Heads. It’s not. It never was. And it never will be. I’m sorry to disappoint you if that’s what you were hoping for, but it’s just not true.
Hilarious Chaos actually started as a WordPress site—a space for me to share the silly, ridiculous videos I make. The move to Lemmy happened for one simple reason: Lemmy has mobile apps, and I prefer using Android apps over websites. WordPress doesn’t have an Android app that works the way I want it to, so we migrated.
If any of you took five seconds to browse our communities, you’d see what Hilarious Chaos is really about:
Sloth Me
Christie’s Perspective
Governor Chris Christie’s Solo Videos
Farts and Poop
Shitty Ass Hilarious Chaos
Random Shit - Stock Talk Videos
One on One
The Delicate Daisy Den
What do all of those have in common? Pure silliness. This instance wasn’t created for political tribalism. It was created as a playground for my bizarre humor.
As we federated, people started projecting onto us—spreading this weird narrative that we’re somehow the reincarnation of Exploding Heads. We’re not. Exploding Heads is gone. Its not coming back. Move on.
Now, if we’re being really honest here, a lot of this drama comes down to one thing: Hilarious Chaos allows conservative content. We don’t allow Nazis. We don’t allow hate speech. But yes—we allow conservatives to post and speak like everyone else. And that rubs some of you the wrong way. So instead of being upfront and saying, “I don’t like that this instance allows conservatives,” you spin these false narratives.
If you’re gonna criticize, at least be honest about what you’re mad about.
Hilarious Chaos allows conservative content.
Assuming you mean american conservativism then seems like the criticism is justified.
They do and it is.
If you’re gonna criticize, at least be honest about what you’re mad about.
I think about 80-90% of the criticisms here are, very openly and honestly, because of the “conservative” content on HC. Personally, I noted the relationship between the two, but I honestly don’t give too much of a shit what the instance used to be or what it is called now.
I tried at quite a bit of length to explain to splinter what the issue was. Conservative viewpoints are allowed. I guess. Although they’re obviously unpopular, no one will stop you from making a community full of “Stephen Miller’s immigration policies are a really good idea” and “Trump negotiated cease-fires in Gaza and Ukraine, what a wonderful job he is doing.” What you guys are asking for is:
- To be able to provide a safe space for those things, and correspondingly for people who have been ejected from other forums because their interpersonal behavior on Lemmy is about as gross as you’d expect from a person who believes those things. Which means inevitably your instance is going to be pretty much only that aside from your own content.
- To also be popular
That’s not going to happen. Innocent people are getting snatched up and getting shipped to turbo-prison to stay for life for no reason at all. Pretty soon if things continue they’re going to be dying and US citizens are going to be included in the ones getting snatched (more so than they are already). If you’re okay providing a platform for the people doing that, including for deliberate professionally-crafted lies that are trying to smokescreen the whole operation so that it can continue without reasonable people rising up to put a stop to it, people are going to get disgusted by you. If you’re okay with that, cool. If not, but you’re still doing those things, I’m not sure what to tell you.
I’ve literally messaged you about Nazi content on your instance and you ignored me. Nice fucking try.
You’re right on most of that, but the few conservatives flood the news and politcs communities there.
Avoiding a few other ones, the instance is fine.
And it’s easy to block and avoid those communites if you don’t like them.
Don’t forget that they’re also one of the few remaining instances that let ban-evading trolls create alt characters and pretend to be someone else without question.
I wouldn’t know. I’m not obsessed with trying to figure out if people have alts, but as far as I know, I’ve never come across that there.
places like .world are also Nazi bars though
when you allow people into your space who nobody wants anything to do with (and specifically because they will tend to attack those people and also they believe they are subhuman)
this is /u/cm0002 in case you were wondering
Wow, so you’ve resorted to just straight up lying about other users now LMAO
Gee I wonder why you don’t directly link to the comment I supposedly said
Oh, because it doesn’t exist
You’re joking, right? Or am I missing something?
So diva basically just straight up lied to you, I never even said what ever they’re referencing lol here:
If it was true they would have directly linked the comment
But diva is a known Tankie of .ml, lying about other users isn’t even the worst they do, here check this comm for documentation of the shenanigans .ml tankies get up to: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
I got confused (multiple times), but, yes. It does seem Diva is a stereotypical tankie.
Note how they also love victimizing themselves.
People who spend all their time punching left when the US secret police are straight up disappearing people from the streets and sending them to a concentration camp should be treated like the Nazis they are, yes.
Lol “punching left” nah I just don’t subscribe to the idea of replacing capitalism authoritarianism with “left flavored” authoritarianism that the tankies push so hard for
!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
Ok, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying cm0002 is a Nazi or something like that.
I disagree with the characterization of LW, but at least now I correctly understand what you are saying. 😀
feel free to disagree with it, from where I’m standing they are, and he is
Putting this here for anyone who needs to see it:
A community on an instance =/= the actual instance, nor is it an endorsement by the instance.
Anyone can start any community they wish on HC, so long as they stick to the rules.
Doesn’t tolerating capricious and censorious moderation violate the principles you seem to be implicitly defending? I don’t really understand this mentality of neutrality towards authoritarian behavior.
I don’t like it, but I’m not there to moderate communities. What I care about is my instance rules being adhered to. This is why I point out that anyone is free to start their own community and moderate it as they see fit.
There is no universal way to moderate a community, you are going to piss someone off no matter how you do it. If I got personally involved, then all communities would be my communities - that’s really not good, nor feasible.
I can’t help it, I keep getting drawn back in. I was curious about what your TOS actually are, and as it happens the content you say you are helpless to moderate actually does violate your site’s terms of service. Under “Content Restrictions”, it forbids “False information.”
From your number 2 community, top of the front page, not even far down:
- “El Salvador Blocks Sen. Van Hollen’s Visit with Deported Illegal Alien” - He wasn’t deported (since that’s a legal process, which was not followed in this case), and also, he had legal status in the US.
- “Young people are now overwhelmingly Republican” - The underlying survey reported that there is a selected age range (18-21) and a selected question (who you support in the 2026 congressional election) which you can select to eke out a 12-point lead for the Republican answer to the question. However, the young people who consider themselves liberal outnumber the self-identified conservatives by 16 points overall. There are other questions (Trump’s favorability rating) which show an even more marked liberal shift in young people overall. The headline is only true if you adopt laughably specific or wrong definitions of all three of the phrases “young people”, “overwhelmingly”, and “Republican”. Otherwise, it is objectively false. The self-identified party ID actually was collected (for purposes of weighting), but for some reason it is not published what the breakdown was. I’d be curious to see it.
Again: This is why people don’t like your conduct here. Having a political viewpoint is fine. I’m fine with conservative people. When someone starts objectively lying to prop up their views, people will start to view them as malicious and someone who’s taking a “oh ho I can’t get involved” attitude to giving them a platform as also malicious. When it’s not just objectively untrue, but also engineered to produce dangerous or deadly results in the real world, that’s where people will simply not want it around. Pretty firmly.
Sorry if it seems like I’m just trying to argue with you. Again, you seem like you at least deserve the benefit of the doubt and complete explanation, since nothing you’re saying seems crazy or obviously malicious, like you think this is good instance-admin philosophy. I’m taking time to present the alternative view. If you were hosting a conservative community, but also making it clear that open and deliberate propaganda was not welcome, then I think you’d be fine. But, of course, such a community would be a nightmare to try to define and police in practice, and if the effort was at all successful, then all the “conservatives” of the modern US variety wouldn’t want to be there. Which is exactly the problem.
I am not helpless to moderate, I don’t want to moderate communities. Are you suggesting that I should be an authoritarian admin? I offer an instance where people, such as yourself, can start their own communities and run them as they like.
Both of those are links to external articles. These links are posted on content aggregator platforms for the purpose of debate. Some people will agree with them, others, like you, will argue against them. That is fine, and not a violation of any rules.
Both of those are links to external articles. These links are posted on content aggregator platforms for the purpose of debate. Some people will agree with them, others, like you, will argue against them. That is fine, and not a violation of any rules.
Yeah, but you set the rules. You explained, just now, that you just don’t feel like it’s proper to tell people how to moderate. That’s fine. I would suggest that you stop blaming “the rules” for this decision. That’s why I got confused, I thought you were doing the lemmy.world thing of treating “the rules” as something you were required somehow to obey. If you just don’t want to police this stuff off your instance, then fine, I get that. Just own up to it being your decision (as you’ve now done, so now I get it). You make the rules. You’ve decided how to make them.
Are you suggesting that I should be an authoritarian admin? I offer an instance where people, such as yourself, can start their own communities and run them as they like.
Maybe an analogy would help.
If you go to a city, and it’s a authoritarian police state, that’s bad. That’s lemmy.ml. The admins just tell people what viewpoints they can and can’t have, ban people at the drop of a hat, it’s just a stupid endeavor. Don’t do that.
If you go to a city, and it’s totally lawless and the police don’t do shit, that’s also bad. You can get shot, there are muggings and assaults constantly, your car will get broken into. Most people on Lemmy, I think, would prefer not to go to that neighborhood. Put a pin in that.
If you go to a city, and the police are just kind of weird, you get hassled for jaywalking or asked for ID for random reasons, but then other things clearly seem criminal and the police don’t care, that’s bad. That’s lemmy.world. The moderation isn’t exactly “authoritarian” but it isn’t competent either. Major crimes get handled, it’s not unsafe, but things aren’t real well-organized.
If you go to a city, and it’s just normal, you can walk around and go to shops, but if you break in someone’s car the police come and arrest you, that’s good. IDK, maybe I am going to trigger some Lemmy people by implying that the police are ever a beneficial presence, but that’s how I see it. That’s how I think most good instances aspire to be. I would define that as lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, that sort of place. You can start a conservative community, you can be a conservative person or moderator. It is fine. You have freedom. But also, part of that freedom is being protected against certain conduct. It happens that, for some reason, the people with modern-US-conservative views cannot manage over the long term to avoid doing that type of conduct, and so eventually they inevitably tend to get banned and have to find new places.
I’m saying that your instance sounds like it’s too much along the lines of the second city. It’s just that no one wants to deal with that shit. Again, it has nothing to do with the viewpoint, at least on reasonable instances. It’s just that after the 200th post of something that is just made-up nonsense in service of racism or the murder of democracy, or the 200th time someone attacks you for made-up reasons and then is hostile and randomly evasive about any type of fact-based discussion about it, people start to recognize the signs. The people with that behavior have outstayed their welcome. And, for whatever reason, modern US conservatives seem to self-select themselves into this weird little bubble where they just like to tell each other outlandish lies, agree with each other, misrepresent themselves to “win” discussions, and attack anyone who tries to talk with them. Actually, that all applies also to a lot of the far-left Lemmy instances also, which is why I don’t fuck with them either.
I actually don’t like that conservative views get objected to constantly, and any conservative community just gets laughed at and dunked on. It’s not balanced. I have some conservative views. Not many but a few. One example is that I think, in general in the modern day in the US, the police are fine. Not always (and there are other parts of the system that need a ton of work) but most of the time. I regularly get downvoted to oblivion from time to time when that comes up. That’s fine, it doesn’t bother me. No one that I can remember has ever censored me for it. I do actually get moderated sometimes when I am a cockhead, but as far as I can remember that’s never actually overlapped with me saying any conservative view.
The issue is not viewpoint. The issue is conduct. Posting laughably incorrect racist propaganda and promoting it, for some reason, seems to overlap with a way of interacting with other users that eventually gets people banned. For some reason. You may not intending to welcome that conduct by welcoming the laughable racist propaganda, but (a) it’s weird that you want to go to bat to make a safe place for people to make communities of that stuff and then expect any other people to want to interact with that place (b) I think you should realize that it’s going to come along with some conduct which you definitely don’t want either.
I am not blaming the rules, I am saying they aren’t breaking them.
As an admin, I don’t want to be an authoritarian. That is a choice that I am making purposefully. I could choose to ban whatever I dislike, but this whole Lemmy thing can’t work if every admin just inserts their political viewpoint into everything.
It is not up to me to decide what makes a good conservative, or democrat, or socialist, or car enthusiast, or whatever else. If someone wants to create a community where only content that praises Cthulhu is allowed, then that is their prerogative. All I care about is that they stick to my instance rules.
Everyone is equally welcome here. If you think that this particular Conservative community is biased or too heavily moderated, then you can always start your own - in fact I encourage you to. You could run a conservative community on HC and moderate it however you want. What I will not do is ban other people for you.
Yeah, hilariouschaos is a bit of a special instance.
Several instances recognize it as a rebrand of the infamous explodingheads instance. I suggest admins defed and users block it.
I wasn’t expecting their admin to come here to try and say it’s not lol
Everyone points to old posts by a user who claimed that - a user who has long left when they realized it wasn’t what HC was about.
My reply in this thread provides an explanation: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/757356/302134
That is blatantly false, spread by people who can’t understand why an instance wouldn’t censor based on political lines.
HC has never been anything like exploding heads.
You’re a 2 day old account with the same username as HC’s admin. Your only posts/comments on your account are in defense of that instance. I hardly consider you an unbiased or trustworthy source based on my experiences with that instance.
I am one of the admins of HC, using this account so everyone can see what I have to say.
I am telling you that you are welcome to start any kind of community on HC (within the generic site rules) and be welcomed the same as everyone else. You can moderate it however you wish. HC (the instance) does not take political sides.
So then you’re a nazi bar. Got it
Can you point to which content you believe is nazi?
I went on there for about 30 seconds and found a “The Donald” successor with UniversalMonk posting a little stream of total fantasy about how good the tariffs are and how Trump is going to save us.
I think now that the literal concentration camps are up and running, and people are going into them, it’s time to say that the modern Republican regime is today’s Nazi Party.
I’m actually fine with talking with a Republican online or in person, maybe I’m in the minority here in that. But we’ve all learned from experience that, at least in its current anonymous-online-forum behavior, that openly pro-Nazi contingent is never just looking to have a conversation and be reasonable about expressing what they honestly believe because they think it’s helping the country as a whole, and come to understanding. They’re always going to start threatening people over DMs after a while. They’re always going to post a steady stream of total fantasy, which they don’t actually believe or try to defend, just to try to manipulate the landscape by having it exist as a little offensive torrent which helps them in their work. They’re always going to manipulate the narrative and censor opposing speech in spaces they control. “Free speech” is always going to turn out to be a fiction once it’s speech they don’t agree with. Because that is their ideology: That it’s okay to cheat as long as you’re on their team, and the other team doesn’t deserve any type of human rights.
“Free speech” doesn’t mean one moderator can run their forum however they want. It doesn’t mean we have to listen to one person forever, however much they want to say, but they don’t have to listen to us if they don’t want to. It doesn’t work the way you’re saying it does. It’s a philosophy of freedom of ideas. It’s a shared social contract that comes with obligations, not just grants of what you’re allowed to do. It’s the idea that you may not agree with someone, but you need to hear them out and then engage honestly with what they’re saying. That we need to live together and protect the weakest or “wrongest” among us. That being a society as free humans with our inalienable rights is more important than our team winning. It’s not a set of code that provides everyone write access to the space, or a total-openness-of-moderation policy. It is a commitment to the idea that if we talk honestly with each other and respect each other, even if we don’t agree about something, we’ll be able to work it out, because even someone who you think is wrong as hell might have a point. The crucial piece you’re missing is that it has to cut both ways. Someone who’s claiming the shield, has to be also willing to provide the same shield to others in the space, and otherwise it is completely fair not to welcome them. That’s why every public servant has to swear an oath to the constitution. The oath is not “Now that I’m in charge I solemnly swear to do whatever the fuck I want, until someone else gets in charge and they can do the same to me.”
If someone’s not on board for it cutting both ways, but they’re hijacking some kind of open tool or democratic public space to make a pretense that they do so they can advance their agenda of killing or imprisoning their enemies and shutting down democracy in a place it used to exist, most reasonable people will tell them to get the fuck out. That’s not censorship. It’s self-defense. It’s the same as ejecting from a public meeting someone who blows hard on a whistle every time their opponents try to speak, passes them notes that they might be killed or their house burned down if they keep talking, and then stands up with a quavering voice and swears their commitment to open society and freedom, and says they can’t understand all these people who are aiming such hateful behavior at them because they said they were a bad person. I can easily find examples of all of that on your instance, I can be specific if you want me to. Do you want me to?
I’m not trying to bully you or your instance or anything personal towards you. But you guys have suffered reputational harm at this point because you’ve welcomed people who are actively trying to do harm to the rest of us. Not just harm but literal death and literal imprisonment. A lot of us, I assume, are thinking about fleeing the country, getting weapons to defend ourselves. A lot of us are real fucking worried about friends and family. We’re wondering what the fuck we even do now. We’re within our rights to want nothing more to do with you, if you welcome the viewpoint that all of that is okay. Or, not even that: If you welcome people who are okay lying about their own viewpoint and manipulating the space to try to advance that work and make it more effective.
Like I say: There is a genuine viewpoint that’s adjacent to what you’re saying that I agree with. I don’t think most of the Republican rank-and-file is our enemy (even if we might wind up in a war with them soon, depending). I don’t think shutting out particular honest political viewpoints is the way. I think we have to be able to talk to each other to even be able to begin to approach and heal from this fucking chasm in our society. It goes deeper than just the current Republican regime. But, like I say, once we get back down the rank-and-file level of individual people:
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As so often happens:
“We’re just tired of these THOUGHT POLICE and want to make a place where we can finally just hang out and be comfortable without the fun police hanging over our shoulders censoring every word we’re free speech warriors come join us we’re better”
Turned out to mean:
“I want to be an asshole, you have no rights whatsoever, that’s a given and fuck you, and if anyone EVER infringes on any of my rights real or imagined in any way no matter how trivial, I will throw a hissy fit of thermonuclear proportions”
(I’m just assuming that this PTB is indicative of hilariouschaos / exploding-heads in general, I don’t have a very strong read on what they’re about. But I think it is a safe working theory.)
HC is not exploding heads. The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.
You are welcome to start your own community on HC and moderate it as you see fit.
The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.
Yeah, no, they do. That’s kind of the point of administration. By allowing actions to take place on the instance, those actions can become representative of the instance. The fact that you’re an inattentive or uncaring administrator doesn’t absolve you of the actions taken under your watch.
But then they’d have to have a community there? Idk why anyone would want to have one there
What’s wrong with having a community there? What are you afraid of?
Being associated with it. Or anything possiblely associated with crypto or nazis
By the same logic you would have to start a perpetual witch hunt on all instances - after all, they could be anywhere.
HC (the instance) does not support any side of the political debate. I guess that’s intolerable.
it’s too political to be against nazis isn’t great argument for getting people there
We do not tolerate content that a nazi would post (e.g. calls for violence, discrimination based on race, etc).
What do you understand by “nazi”?
implying Nazis are just a “side of the political debate”
Elsewhere in this thread, accusing the enemy of doing exactly what they are doing.
Emphasizes to the point of nausea that they are categorically neutral and unbiased
Twisting words, appeal to ideological principle (“intolerable”), and other bad faith arguments.
Yep, that’s a rightwing instance alright.
A conservative community =/= the nazis. Also most of the accounts posting there are not even HC users.
Can you show me an example of nazi content on HC?
Bullshit like this happening to me, for one. I also wouldn’t want a community on lemmy.world or slrpnk for the same reason: Because then, not only would I be associating myself with their brand, but I would also be subject to having weird stuff happen to my community because of decisions by admins I don’t trust.
I’m on the record here that you would be free to moderate as you wish, so long as instance rules are adhered to - just like everyone else.
HC is not exploding heads.
Yes it is.
The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.
I mean that’s fair, but also, this is the #2 community there. The #1 community is an AI news summary place made by a person I find notably weird and disagreeable.
You are welcome to start your own community on HC and moderate it as you see fit.
Yeah, I’ll get right on that. It sounds delightful.
Bro why u hating on my bot? What did it do?
I find you notably weird and disagreeable.
I like your bot, man. Ignore him. I don’t even like most bots, but yours does great.
Not only that, but his instance has bots too, so he’s a hypocrite.
