yup, they block many things, so if u wanna block many many things, why not start looking at what ppl who block many many things block?

Damn I think beehaw is there? I think they have an allow list.

Yeah idk that drama. Tbh I’m just pissed about the defederation situation and am looking for places that aren’t as isolated. I googled trying to find drama about technowix and didn’t find it.

I can somehow agree with a few things you say, but overall I think the premise is wrong. The fact is not that most blocks or even half the blocks are due to having illegal or bad content. I also don’t know any defederation based on language or any such matter (especially since languages seen is already solved by your profile selection of language). Most blocks are automated, especially for instances that have trouble handling bot sign-ups, or those that have moderation issues. I think that the assumptions that one can make are indeed dangerous but they’re not based in reality, but in imaginary facts about what defederation means. Obviously, since we’re growing very fast, I agree that newcomers and less technically minded people may believe this is the case and use blocklists to justify random assumptions. But in the end, they would be entirely wrong, and wrong assumptions can be made about practically anything, so I wouldn’t put much value or thought into the possible wraponizationability of instance defederation lists.

lmao ppl went crazy with the downvotes on this thread and i’m not sure why hahahah, just reading they even downvoted my “no problem” message. crazy.

It is no problem, I like to help.

The problem with dbzer0 is the same we had talked about before (edit: I talked with someone else from lemmy.ninja about this topic, your instance was blocked before). It’s old news. It’s from when you had a bot problem. Ryona has a cache and doesn’t clear it too often.

The problem with toot.foundation has nothing to do with that, though. I have no idea why they would block you. You can find the up to date list of blocked instances on a mastodon by going to the https://instance.tld/about. For example, for toot.foundation, which does block lemmy.ninja, here is the updated blocklist at the bottom, you have to click Moderated servers: https://toot.foundation/about

There are 3 categories in settings on your server, as far as I know: Linked, Allowed and Blocked. I don’t know the difference between Linked and Allowed, but yes, these links contain multiple lists on the same page. The format is the following: https://domain.tld/instances, you will normally find from 1 to 3 lists there, (the Linked, Allowed and Blocked lists). Linked is normal, Blocked is defederated. Idk what Allowed is but I think it is also federated so 🤷

Yet our site is on the lists provided.

you’re wrong, your site is allowed by all the lists I mentioned.

So these lists can be used as weapons, if they work

These lists are not weapons, they are provided by the instances themselves. They are not false or artificial. They are current, and they display exactly what is real in the configuration of the servers.

There is! Browse by instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances, beehaw.org/instances or lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances. They have the most up to date list of people-commonly-disagreed-with-by-lefties. You can start blocking right away 😊

B-but my disagreement is big! They’re clearly fascists.

You will find information in the comment thread. Many explanations of what happened with link sources.

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lol yeah there were a couple thank gods in this thread and i made sure to reply to both 🥰 it’s fun to be god

Admins are effectively dictators. Some do have anarchistic views such as lemmy.dbzer0.com (and even there, to what extent?). The vast majority only care about themselves and what is theirs. No authority with absolute power will submit themselves to the will of a collective of strangers.

Some peeps don’t appreciate the good stuff in life. Gotta make it all about their deeply ingrained political beliefs, and bring down anything that slightly challenges them. As someone in the original thread implied, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Memes improve life 😌

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Completely agree. Admins are free to defederate. Users are free to heavily criticize and leave. That’s how freedom works. 😊

Yup. I’m also moving between instances. I have multiple accounts. All I do is browse and meme anyway. I don’t need a “home address” with a doorbell. Liftoff app is improving it’s inbox and currently you can switch very fast between servers’ inboxes. The problem is more that I have to make a lot more effort than I would if this weren’t happening, and that many people don’t even know they aren’t “stuck” with their first account.