What is Defederation?
Defederation means we have disconnected our instance from another, and users from our instance will no longer be able to see anything (communities, posts or comments) coming from it, and their users won’t be able to see anything coming from ours.
What will get an Instance Defederated?
Our goal is to avoid defederation, but we will do so under the following circumstances:
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The instance spreads overwhelming amounts of drama, hate or negativity.
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The instance is mostly made up bots, and or promotes spam.
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The instance allows the harassment or doxxing of others.
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The instance knowingly hosts CSAM or other illegal content.
Has FMHY Defederated Instances?
Only two, both for breaking the 1st rule above:
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exploding-heads
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lemmygrad
Things to Note:
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There are circumstances where we may block a specific community within an instance, rather than blocking the entire instance itself, but this is very uncommon.
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Remember that if there’s a community you don’t like, you can block it entirely in settings.
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Keep in mind that our goal is to keep this community safe, so if you see something that breaks our rules please don’t hesitate to report it.
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If its something urgent, you can always contact us easily via Divolt 💬. Its connected to our discord, so there are mods online 24/7.
I just hope this is done as an absolute last resort, and doesn’t become common practice.
Yeah I don’t see it happening at all outside of circumstances like this where the community as a whole is really pushing for it.
People have been highly vocal about de-federating from XYZ instance because they’re “transphobia”, “nazis” or something else they object to.
People should be looking at the tools they currently have, blocking communities/magazines or whole domains, that way content you don’t like is hidden just for you, without impacting anyone else.
Banhammers on an admin level should be a method of last resort
That was exactly the problem with exploding-heads. EVERYTHING on it was some kind of hateful bullshit. It wasn’t one community that you could easily block.
I’m really hoping that lemmy implements blocklists like mastodon so users can block instances themselves soon.
Agreed 100% some places way over moderate and create these horrible echo chamber safe spaces- no thanks. I’m an adult. I can manage my own queue, and If I’m offended, I can block things myself. I don’t Like over moderation