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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?

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  • 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


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[โ€“] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

Edit: thanks for all the replies! Iโ€™ve got it now hahaha

[โ€“] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Nollij@lemmy.fmhy.ml 19 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.

[โ€“] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

They're basically /r/the_Donald.

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...

[โ€“] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a fairly far-right instance, which makes it unpopular with many left-leaning members of the fediverse. Tt also tends to export a lot of trolls and drama that cause it to get defederated by mainstream instances that don't want to deal with the moderation hassles.

It's a fairly far-right instance, which makes it unpopular with many left-leaning members of the fediverse

As a centrist I'm not a big fan of the far right. You don't have to be left wing to think fascism is bad