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Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator.

Part of the problem is the instance's open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup. This in combination with an inactive admin is a recipe for abuse.

We hope this is only temporary but we have to do this to protect our users.

Edit: we use fediseer, have a look https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

Edit 2: We got in touch with the Feddit.nl admin. Email requirements were added to the sign-up process and we're setting up a communication channel. So that means we are federating with Feddit.nl again!

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[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hiya! Question, is there a way we can see this sort of information ourselves as well? Namely, reports and admin activity logs.

What’s to stop an instance, then a collection of instances and so on from claiming others aren’t being actively moderated in order to censor?

Not making any accusations obviously, just a thought I had while reading.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's easy to go over to feddit.nl and see they only have one admin who has not been active in almost two weeks.

Full transparancy: the abuse we were dealing with from that instance was vote manipulation and worse, csam. Especially in the case of csam we can not wait for days for a reaction.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Out of curiosity: is this an issue of federating content from feddit.nl's communities, or an issue of feddit.nl's users messing with LW?

[-] antik@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Users. That's why it is mentioned there is no email required during sign-up. They create an account in seconds, make a post and then delete their account.

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You guys are doing good work!

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing this. I've not had to see any of it because you guys are on top of dealing with it. (Although I also don't sort posts by new, so I probably wouldn't see those posts before they got removed anyway.)