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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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[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It really won't. Mastodon has whole block lists and has done for years and guess what - user retention is no problem at all.

From what you've commented here, you're annoyed that you keep picking instances to join that allow shitty things to happen and then don't. The issue there is not defederation, it's that:

Moderation is lacking
Your insistence on wanting to join an instance that's a free-for-all

In the real world, instance Admin's are legally responsible for what's on their servers. If you want to defed from absolutely no one then you need to rent a VPS and spin up a Lemmy instance of your own. That way, the legal risk is all your own.

[-] PrinceHabib72@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

I mentioned elsewhere, I don't have the ability to run my own instance. Mastodon also has user migration tools, making it much easier to start up a new account on a different instance. Lemmy does not. I'm also not even talking just about myself. There's been drama about large instances defederating from each other since I joined- which, to be fair, was only a few months ago, but it's also when the population exploded and defederation became a real concern. My main problem is the simple idea that, due to actions entirely outside of my control, large sections of the fediverse can just disappear for my account, forcing me to either accept the newer, smaller fediverse, or make a new account somewhere else that happens to federate with both my previous instance AND the defederated instance if I want a single account to view the same content I used to.

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

This is part of the growing pains, once moderation tools mature, this type of federation will be less of an issue.

[-] PrinceHabib72@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

I think so too, especially if and when users get the ability to block entire instances. That will prevent some of the defederation-for-wrongthink (in either direction, it doesn't matter), and as it matures, I think the "accidentally hosting CSAM" will be less of an issue as well.

[-] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sharing Nazi views and spewing racist vitriol isn’t “wrongthink”, now you really seem to come across as concern trolling and disingenuous (especially putting it in quotations).

A user blocking an entire instance still means their hateful members can post and clog up another one. We don’t need Lemmy.world turning into truth.social. People don’t want to see or read that garbage or be exposed to it, this isn’t a “both sides” issue.

[-] PrinceHabib72@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Uhh... what quotations?

I've already said, I'm being completely genuine. And it's why I said "in either direction", because lemmygrad defederates from stuff too.

[-] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You put the term “wrongthink” in quotes, as if using racial slurs and promoting white supremacy (which is what one instance was defederated for) is just normal discourse that should be tolerated. The things they’re defederating for are not minor or petty. This very post cites CSAM as a reason.

I’m done with this, I don’t think you’re actually sincere and just want Lemmy to be Voat or 8chan.

[-] PrinceHabib72@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I literally did not use quotes. I'm very confused. Are you mistaking me for someone else? I will say it again, I'm very sincere. White supremacy (along with any type of racism) is fucking stupid. I used the term wrongthink because it goes both ways- lemmygrad would consider capitalism wrongthink.