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Did we start federating with lemmygrad.ml?

I remember it was on the list of blocked instances, but now it's not,, and my page was just flooded with content from there - was that intentional?

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I'd much rather see us defederate from exploding.heads. although I have to admit that I haven't seen any objectionable posts from either instance in the wild yet.
- Mmmmm, I just saw some posts relating to this, but never any posts from them. If it becomes a problem then we'll sort it out 👍
  
  Their rules look good and normal. As long as they end up moderating themselves, and don't brigade our users. I see no reason to bring out the nuclear option, when kind words work just as well.
  
  So...
  
  Something like this:
  
  https://exploding-heads.com/
  
  Is going to be de-federated soon... Right?
  
  Because at least on Reddit I could just block the problematic subs big enough to show up on /all.
  
  But apparently we can't block whole instances and they keep making new subs (or whatever they're called) so it's just whack a mole.
  
  Did you choose to federate with that shitshow? Or does every instance automatically federate and pruning bigots isn't something this I stance can deal with?
  
  Hello "Givesomefucks",
  
  I'm sorry that you are having troubles. Federation happens when users on our instance search for a community on another instance. As you can see from "All", we currently have a couple of users on Reddthat who has subscribed to the communities on exploding-heads.
  
  Community Subscribers Dank [email protected] 2 Digital [email protected] 0 [email protected] 1 Healthy [email protected] 1 [email protected] 2 Food [email protected] 0 [email protected] 1
  
  I agree that the current moderation controls are non-existent. This is a known issue for users, moderators and server administrators alike. The Lemmy fediverse went from ~2000 active users to over 100k in a little over a week. These issues are problems that the developers and users are finding and creating fixes for.
  
  There are only two real levels/options available for us.
  
  Server Admins: Defederation (which blocks every community for every user on that instance)
  
  Users: Blocking a Community or User (removes that content from your feed)
  
  What is coming out soon (I hope) will be the option for Users to perform a block/filter on an instance level. That would completely solve your problem as I understand it.
  
  If they are specifically targeting you, attacking other Reddthat users or completely attacking Reddthat at a whole. Then we would consider defederating. That goes with any instance in the fediverse, and does not go specifically towards this instance.
  I try to be very transparent with these items, as do other server admins. Making a unilateral decision to block an instance purely on different opinions is something that goes against the type of community that I would like Reddthat to become. People are able to have different opinions. Without a different of opinions, the world would be a very boring place.
  
  I hope you understand our point of view, why the federation initially happened. When and why a defederation would happen, and that moderation & filtering tools for users will be coming soon.
  
  Cheers,
  Tiff
  
  People are able to have different opinions
  
  ...
  
  So, if someone from this instance subs to a nazi community, is that just a "different opinion" we all have to deal with?
  
  I'm just curious if there's a line at all, if you're saying that instance isn't bad enough to defederate, especially since when I looked the only thing going on there is bigotry and complaining about being defederated by a bunch of instances with active moderation.
  
  I do really like the level of communication here, but I'll probably just join one of the many many instances that have already defederated from them.
  
  No worries
  
  Edit:
  
  That update that shut this down for a day broke stuff btw. My notifications won't go away and trying to delete this account just refreshes the page...
  
  So I guess you get a permanent zombie subscriber, I've got a feeling a lot of people had the same issue.
  
  For everyone else:
  
  Try out lemmy.world for an option that blocks problematic instances and allows you to downvote bigotry when you do see it.

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