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Defederation Policy (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nbats@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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:

  • The instance spreads overwhelming amounts of drama, hate or negativity.

  • The instance is mostly made up bots, and or promotes spam.

  • The instance allows the harassment or doxxing of others.

  • The instance knowingly hosts CSAM or other illegal content.


Has FMHY Defederated Instances?

Only two, both for breaking the 1st rule above:

  • exploding-heads

  • lemmygrad


Things to Note:

  • 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.

  • Remember that if there's a community you don't like, you can block it entirely in settings.

  • 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.

  • If its something urgent, you can always contact us easily via Divolt 💬. Its connected to our discord, so there are mods online 24/7.

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[-] ziggurism@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

The hysterics over the as yet purely hypothetical prospect of Facebook/Threads being on the fediverse, along with some worrying signs of censorship, have caused me to to flee lemmy.world. Here’s hoping FMHY will be a better fit for me.

[-] subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It became the largest instance and the one to absorb most of the attention-seekers that expect to be treated as "customers", despite the instance admin (of lemmy.world) emphasizing they're all volunteers working for the community.

[-] kuna@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Threads already violates rules 1 and 3, hosting people who escalated their harrassment into real life multiple times already, so I hope the decision to block them (should they ever choose to federate) is a no-brainer to FMHY admins.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How is threads more overwhelmingly negative or tolerant of doxxing than other major platforms? Like what is the basis for your comment?

[-] kuna@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Threads is owned by Meta, which:

If your point is that Meta is no worse than Twitter or whatever other corporate media, then whatever, I'm not really interested in discussions about whether it's better to come down with plague or leprosy. They all suck.

If your point is that Threads itself isn't technically compilicit in anything yet after being up for 10 days, then I think that's pretty naive.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Also if you’re gonna mention genocides that Facebook is complicit with, don’t forget the Rohingya genocide

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[-] wowitsverycool@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, thank god for defederating exploding-heads.

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[-] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I really like that you are codifying policy like this.

The "instance is mostly made up by bots" is obviously a great call but your wording makes it sound like <50% bots is cool, >50% bots is not cool. haha

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

and their users won't be able to see anything coming from ours.

That is not true, beehaw defederated from sh.itjust.works, but we can still see posts from beehaw in our feed. Granted, if we comment, nothing gets sent back to beehaw, only members of sh.itjust.works will see those comments.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Are members of defederated instances informed/notified when they comment (or interact in general) under a post of instances that defederated from them? If the answer is "no" then it's trash design. If the answer is "yes" then it's good design.

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no formal warning, like from the software, but the admins did explain this and most just removed beehaw comms from their subscriptions (or at least I presume), but I kept them, for experimental purposes, to see if this is actually true. I don't actually see anyone commenting in those posts. They appear empty. I know they aren't cuz I can view beehaw from other accounts, but to sh.itjust.works, they appear empty.

The thing is I don't think an instance can check if it's being defederated by some other instance in the fediverse. If there is an easy way to check this, than yes, I do believe a formal warning on a post on an instance thay has defederated from you is in order. Things are kinda chaotic now regarding other bugs and features that are more important, but when things kinda settle down, yeah, I believe they should look into this as well.

[-] bit10111100@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Can always check https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances . Blocked Instances are at the bottom

[-] patch1@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

So what does deferedating from them do for us? I wasn't seeing their content anyway because it wasn't popular enough to end up on all.

Does it have any practical effects for fmhy users?

I personally joined this instance because so many other large ones have massive federation lists. So if the only effect of defederating is to send a message, then I'm not sure I'm for that.

[-] nbats@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah they haven't become a huge issue for us yet, but they have for other instances, and most of our reports of "racism" have come from things posted to exploding. Deferedating isn't to send any sort of message, its just to prevent having issues with them in the future.

[-] Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I just hope this is done as an absolute last resort, and doesn’t become common practice.

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[-] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, very cool. And about Threads, I will probably block Threads myself just because it's a twitter clone, it doesn't need to be on lemmy. But people should be able to make that decision themselves.

[-] iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I think preemtive defederation/blocking from Threads is the most logical decision for every instance since we are talking about a known hostile company, not something new testing the waters that nobody knows how it will behave, it's Meta being Meta (even if they are trying to hide it behind the "by Instagram" slogan).

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Out of curiosity, what’s the deal with exploding-heads? I keep seeing them referenced negatively all over several instances.

Edit: thanks for all the replies! I’ve got it now hahaha

[-] Supermariofan67@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

At first I thought it was just some edgy troll community, but it didn't take long for me to find a fairly upvoted comment saying "look, I just don't like immigrants" or something like that. So yeah, seems like that kind of place over there...

[-] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

It's basically alt-right spam. Lots of Breitbart links, right-wing culture war mouthpieces and memes, etc.

[-] Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Breitbart on the mainstream, centrist posts. Most of it's way further out there. I have no idea which ones are inauthentic shitposts and which ones are legit. They are way beyond Poe's Law.

But more important is when they show up on other instances. Everything becomes an argument, dragging down everyone and everything they encounter. This also can't be solved by just blocking the communities on EH, it must be blocked at the community's instance or our (the viewer's) home instance.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Defederation means we have disconnected our instance from another, and our users will no longer be able to see communities, posts or comments from users on the defederated instance.

It should be noted that it's a two way street, no? They won't see any content from here either?

Also, I thought single community ban from other instances wasn't possible yet? I remember the vlemmy guy saying that before going MIA.

[-] nbats@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah good point, I just added that it goes both ways. As far as blocking single communities go I don't have all the details but I've been told we've done it for one so far.

[-] boots@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is it possible to list blocked communities in the /instances page? Or at least list them in a post? Just so users know what's being blocked.

[-] nbats@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No not yet but I think there's plans to make it possible.

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