Defederated/Blocked Instances Mega Thread
Defederated/Blocked Instances Mega Thread
Hi guys,
Do you think we should have a mega thread (maybe even a locked one if that's an option) explaining why each specific instance is blocked from this instance?
Just to give some clarity.
At the moment, there are only 3 instances that are blocked.
You can see the list at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances
Two of them were hate instances that died long before the threadiverse migration occurred.
The last one (exploding heads) is a right wing, trump worshipping bitcoin bro instance that was also defederated many months before the threadiverse migration occurred.
Going forward, basically, anything that gets defederated will almost universally have the following reason
"This instance was blocked as it was an ongoing source of transphobia and/or other bigotry"
Speaking of, I definitely wouldn't mind defederating with lemmygrad (and maybe even lemmy.ml itself, since it resolves to the same IP) because it is suuuuper tankie.
Hell, I wouldn't mind moving to kbin, but that's probably a bit annoying for most since most of us just moved off of reddit.
We've got a kbin instance coming, but as a platform, it's more alpha than beta, so there are speedbumps. It's coming though :)
When it comes to defederation, it's pretty simple. Blahaj is a community for queer and gender diverse folk. Protecting that community and other marginalised users from hate is the main priority of my moderation decisions.
If the admins of any instance (including the devs instances) let hate and bigotry spread and start hurting members of the Blahaj community, then that instance will be blocked. Other than that, I'm unlikely to defederate whole instances.
agree, splitting a queer community over sectarianism is very bad vibes, especially considering 196 has nothing to do in particular with queerness, and in fact from what ive seen are very fetishizing of transgender people on their old subreddit. though i just learned about it today
It's gonna be realllllly hard to keep people on this instance if we defederate lemmy.ml. Lots of large communities moved there because it's been treated as the de-facto instance, so we'd be walling ourselves off from tons of thriving communities that have nothing to do with those admins.
Personally, I think defederating an instance should be something done only if absolutely necessary. Is it possible to just block communities we dislike on an account level? (Genuine question, I haven't tried that yet)
Yes, I already did it to the 196 community because the memes were too much
Yeah, probably shouldn't defederate from lemmy.ml even if they're probably okay with tankies since it's still the main instance. Lemmygrad though.. Definitely. I've already blocked a few subs over there myself, and if I can figure out how to block the instance itself I'll definitely do it.
Yeah that would be best for transparency. Blocking an instance is a big deal and the decision should be held under a lot of scrutiny by the community imo so making the list easy to access is a good start
My thoughts exactly. If we have a small group of people deciding what you can access and what you can't without any form of required transparency, then we are at risk of being part of a dishonest media.
+1 on this.
Honestly from my time here so far, I love the way y'all make decisions, but more transparency is never bad so why not 🤷
As a newbie here, it'd be great to see why things are happening the way they are. Transparency in general is cool imo.
I am not sure about specifics, but this (https://thebad.space/about) is a community curated list of mastodon instances which should be blocked.