Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.
I feel like I might be put on a FBI list for reading this.
I’m genuinely disappointed that Asbestos Cafe is basically forbidden now. That’d be a solid name for a hardcore alcoholic vegan bar.
Jfc right? What possessed someone to make some of those?
I was curious what freak.university was but it just leads to a 404 :/
Based on some of these other site names, you probably don’t actually want to know
Mm, true yeah
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Needs to be much higher…
Should be first
Why? It’s just fearmongering and would damage the fediverse
XMPP
The difference is nobody used XMPP before and after Google integrated it. People are using the fediverse. I don’t think people already using the fediverse will ever migrate to threads. If anything, people may realise that they can talk to threads people and leave Meta’s system. Even the BBC and the European Union have their own instances. I cannot see them migrating to Threads whenever Meta messing with politics is a known issue
Taking down a threat to free and open fediverse is the opposite of damage to fediverse.
Trumpislovetrumpislife, that has to be satire, right?
Wait till you visit nazi.social
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I have to know what the Detroit soccer team did to get so high on that list. Somebody here must know. Please!
it’s a big pedo instance iirc
Really? I know they have a bunch of porn bots, I don’t think I ever interacted with someone on there, just saw bot posts in my federated feed. I never noticed anything pedoish, but of course I don’t click content warnings so I wouldn’t know, I’m not interested in NSFW stuff on fedi.
That’s how they were reported to fediseer iirc, or at least they care… So… Instant defed for me.
I was going to guess racially based comments about crime in detroit idk
As long as the pedo shit is blocked i dont see why u would want to defederate instead of letting each user block what they want. We need a user level federated blocklist.
Anything illegal posted on a remote server will bring legal trouble to you as a server admin the moment it federates onto your instance. Therefore I completely understand them defederating from instances with a high risk of illegal activity.
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What…?
Selective federation is a benefit. It’s by design. It’s helpful in precisely these circumstances. And as it’s open source, the users of the service can use the feature how they want. It’s entirely reasonable that instance admins use the feature as intended to protect against regional legal liability. What you’re doing is like using a canoe, and then complaining that there’s too much water in these here parts.
Right, brainfart, sorry.
At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance’s users from your communities. If you’re constantly banning one instance’s users and their admins seem fine with it, there’s really no other way.
I wish I, an individual account, could defederate from instances, like some way to block all those instances’ users.
the lemmy devs added per user instance blocks a while ago. Check your settings page
IIRC that only blocks posts though, not comments :/
I don’t think that blocks the users, just the posts? Or does it block users also?
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t block the users; I blocked the NSFW Lemmy, whatever the big one is, because of how much porn would be on the All feed otherwise. I was surprised to see a post or comment from someone whose account was on that instance a few weeks ago, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t want to see so overall I was glad the users are still able to participate elsewhere if that’s what they want.
Because in order to block content, the user first has to see it. If I were an instance admin, I wouldn’t force my users to see any amount of N words and homophobic slurs, not even the once it takes to block it.
Hence tge need for a federated blocklist.
With a blocklist, the user is putting their trust in an unnamed group of people with essentially no accountability. With defederation, the user puts their trust in admins they can talk to, with a public modlog to explain every decision. You’re proposing to take the same amount of control away from users, but with less accountability.
They are both essentially the same thing except u decided to call one group of unnamed people Admins and suddenly they have responsibility and authority.
The difference, and the best part of the fediverse imho, is that if you’re not happy with someone elses rules you can become your own admin and set your own rules. The more we centralize power the further we go against that idea.
Nah
If you want to see far-right content and spam, join a far-right server or run your own, rather than trying to shame server owners into doing what you want.
Admins are entitled to decide what they platform and what they don’t. On top of that, the user experience of “just block 100 servers of Nazis and incels to get to the content you want to see” is complete dogshit.
This “it should all be user level” is just apologist bullshit.
Run your own instance then
Looked at the list and did a bit of searching as well as checking the reasons they were defederated. Looks like the top one is basically a trolling group akin to GNAA or some of the proto 4chan or SomethingAwful shit for those who remember back that far.
I can understand why overt trolling and possibly illegal content would be defederated.
That said I would like to see more diverse opinions and sources on my Lemmy feed though. There has to be a base somewhere that isn’t literal nazis but isn’t open socialists either.
I visited a few out of mindless curiosity and ignorance. I have no idea wtf I read and now the FBI is after me…
What is varishangout…net? Initially read it as yarishangout.net and wondered why a space for Toyota Yaris owners got defedded. Also wondering how stereophonic.space got defedded?
Can someone give me a brief rundown on what it means to be federated vs defederated? New to lemmy
Really basic summary
Federated means that instances are connected, i.e. lemmy.world accounts and posts can interact with sh.itjust.works ones.
Defederated means that one of the instances is blocked by the other, so all communication between the two is blacklisted.
Oh okay, that makes sense. And I’m assuming “Defederations” in the image is like the number of accounts in that defederated group?
It’s the number of instances that have blocked them.
Accounts can’t defederate afaik. There’s a way to block instances on some apps, but it’s client-side and really just hides posts from that instance.
Awesome, thanks for the explanation :) Now I’m curious as to what poa.st did/does to be so reviled
I don’t know the whole deal with them, but off the top of my head I know it’s a very far-right social media site that was fairly mainstream for a while. It got a lot of media coverage after getting hacked, so I guess a lot of people ended up blocking it once they heard of it.
I don’t know the full story. They were probably just a bunch of trolls like a lot of the other instances.
hexbear isn’t even malicious. hexbear is spicy at best. not nearly as bad as lemmygrad, which is outright repugnant in its overt hostility. hexbear users are at least CAPABLE of communicating, whereas in my experience lemmygrad users pull the animal farm squealer move and defecate on the floor before storming out.
I zoom in and this is the FIRST thing I see. What in the god damned shit?
Didn’t see that one. The one that caught my eye and made me double take was
rapefemenists.social
Jesus Christ.
Why is truthsocial.com so far down?
I think it doesn’t federate to begin with, so there’s no need to defed.
If it doesn’t federate, then who’s defederating it?
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Martin Cooper?
How can anyone read any of this? The graphic is unreadable to me.
On sync at least if you open tall images from the post it will be readable.
On the website you can zoom.
The only things I know about Kiwifarms is that it was a federated instance and that Cloudflare got flak for not taking them down sooner.
lol. I’m pawoo user
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Decided to check it out to figure out what was going on. There’s ‘anime women look young’ and then there’s straight up lolicon. DO NOT the pawoo
Edit : There were also like celebrity deepfakes, but that really feels like an afterthought
ok
Sinful
Good that threads.net is in top 50 but I would’ve liked to see it higher. Right now it is at 39th place.
Edit: Also what is the source for the picture?
Thank you.
For me a lot of the interesting part isn’t which instances are being defederated, but why. Giving a quick glance, most defed reasons seem to be fairly sensible, with only a few being assumptive or outright idiotic (like blanket top domain defederation).
I like that clicking on the instance shows the reason given (if any) for each defederation.
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