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I think this is an extreme reaction to (as far as I'm aware) the first instance of a serious issue with the sdf lemmy instance.

Another poster has brought up that the admins are possibly busy with taking over another pubnix system at the moment. That's quite a big project.

Lemmy is still a niche thing, run by a small group of volunteers. It is not anywhere close to reddit or other sites in terms of resiliency against admin life events. As far as I'm aware, Lemmy is not a primary thing for the sdf group, but instead just one of many projects amd servers they run. As a sysadmin, these things tend to be cattle more than pets.

Also, I hate to say it, but a single user posting hateful shit is not a true emergency. Even if it has been 48 hours. From a purely sysadmin perspective, it would need to be heinously illegal content being posted or an actual infrastructure failure to reach emergency level in my eyes at least.

Unless I'm missing something, the sysadmins have been reached out to through their admin accounts on this lemmy instance, and the membership@ email address. There has also (according to this thread) been one single person who posted in the IRC asking for an emergency method to contact the admins, and that only happened after this thread was posted.

Has anyone tried contact through the instance mastodon account? Looks like there was activity there a few hours ago.

Has anyone checked the whois records for the webmaster email listed and tried that?

All of that said, this does highlight a major issue on this instance that needs resolution: there needs to be enough active lemmy instance admins that an issue like this cannot sit with no acknowledgement for anywhere even close to 48 hours, and it should probably be someone separate from the sysadmin(s) since they seem to have a schedule busy with other things.

There also needs to be a clear list of contacts, contact methods, and escalation chain procedures.

Until then, 48 hours is not some absurd amount of time with no response for a place as small as the sdf lemmy instance. Hell, at least in the east coast US right now there is a nasty nasty Flu variant going around that is laying some people out for well over a week. I've heard of some people still having symptoms 3 weeks in. Not covid, just the fucking flu.

I'm not trying to say that the asshole isn't a problem, just that in the context I think that calling for defederation after 48 hours with no ack is silly.

I would give it one more day just in case. But yeah, I'm already considering other instances and if I leave I'll stop my admittedly small monthly donation to SDF.

Its a pity because we had something beautiful here that was ruined by something so dumb. What instance do you think people will migrate to?

I nominate jawa21 to take over.

I'm out of the loop, what happened?

fwiw, I've tried emailing membership@sdf.org three times in mid January about getting my Pixelfed 2FA reset. Never heard back. Between that and the issue here, I'm wondering if they're just spinning stuff up and then ignoring it.

I was made a mod on social.sdf.org but I report to no one and am basically left to my own devices there, too.

It is time to talk about sailing ship and encourage defederation of this instance

Nah dawg. I mean, obviously you do you and what you feel is best. But I blocked and reported the turd, and am not seeing any of the spam trash.

Don't worry too much. Move to another server if you want, unfortunately this is part of the process. It's just gonna happen, this is what we get for using the freer kind of social media :)

They may have been preoccupied with taking stewardship of a different pubnix. It seems like it was a whole event set up.

Looks like an admin has arrived! Thank you!

I agree, definitely a good time to start talking to instance admins about defederation, because even if they do address the problem at this point unless they can give assurances change will be made this WILL happen again, it's only a matter of time, and two days to squash out a neonazi troll is absolutely unacceptable.