Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)

Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.

I feel like I might be put on a FBI list for reading this.
I’m genuinely disappointed that Asbestos Cafe is basically forbidden now. That’d be a solid name for a hardcore alcoholic vegan bar.
Jfc right? What possessed someone to make some of those?
I was curious what freak.university was but it just leads to a 404 :/
- Based on some of these other site names, you probably don't actually want to know

THREADS IS 39 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳📟📟📟📟📟📟📟📟📟

Needs to be much higher...
- Should be first
THREADS
Threads is actually #7 on this ranking: https://fed.dembased.xyz/weighted
Meaning it is widely defederated, including by instances that have shorter block lists.
Anyway, that whole list is ugly.

Trumpislovetrumpislife, that has to be satire, right?

"Any community that gets its kicks pretending to be idiots, will eventually be overtaken by actual idiots who believe they are in good company."
Wait till you visit nazi.social
- Wait what
  Edit: I don't want to know

I zoom in and this is the FIRST thing I see. What in the god damned shit?

Didn't see that one. The one that caught my eye and made me double take was
rapefemenists.social
- Jesus Christ.
And it's above Threads.net. Talk about priorities lol
Yeah, there are more further down in the list too. I was honestly shocked to see how many blatant pedo instances there were.
Makes me wonder about all the times that instances like lemmy.world got brigaded by child porn posters. Was it people against the fediverse, or just shit leaking in from the blatant pedo instances?

I have to know what the Detroit soccer team did to get so high on that list. Somebody here must know. Please!

it's a big pedo instance iirc

Good that threads.net is in top 50 but I would've liked to see it higher. Right now it is at 39th place.

Edit: Also what is the source for the picture?

_Anti _{Commercial-AI} _license _(CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0)

https://fed.dembased.xyz/scoreboard?blocked=200
- Thank you.
  For me a lot of the interesting part isn't which instances are being defederated, but why. Giving a quick glance, most defed reasons seem to be fairly sensible, with only a few being assumptive or outright idiotic (like blanket top domain defederation).
- Thx.
  _Anti _{Commercial-AI} _license _(CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0)
- I like that clicking on the instance shows the reason given (if any) for each defederation.
What's up with the downvotes?
- It's so weird.
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- No clue.
  My theories:
  A lot of people like threads.net
  They don't like I asked for a source
  Or they don't like the copyleft license
  Because that's literally all the information my comment gives.
  _Anti _{Commercial-AI} _license _(CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0)
- AI simps. There's more and more of them on the fediverse, for some reason. They're getting a bit less active on Mastodon, as Elongated Muskrat is also being an AI fan.
- The anti-commercial useless link.
Higher than the blatant pedo instances? Those are too far down on the list, tbh.

I visited a few out of mindless curiosity and ignorance. I have no idea wtf I read and now the FBI is after me…

What is varishangout..net? Initially read it as yarishangout.net and wondered why a space for Toyota Yaris owners got defedded. Also wondering how stereophonic.space got defedded?

Probably unmodded and open to automated signups leading to troll and bot infestations.

Can someone give me a brief rundown on what it means to be federated vs defederated? New to lemmy

Really basic summary
Federated means that instances are connected, i.e. lemmy.world accounts and posts can interact with sh.itjust.works ones.
Defederated means that one of the instances is blocked by the other, so all communication between the two is blacklisted.
- Oh okay, that makes sense. And I'm assuming "Defederations" in the image is like the number of accounts in that defederated group?

How can anyone read any of this? The graphic is unreadable to me.

Some mobile clients open the thumbnail version of images. If you instruct your client to open the image in a browser, you'll see that the url has thumbnail instructions appended to the end and those can be trimmed off of the end to show the full image.
- What mobile clients are those and why are people using them? The image displays perfectly in Voyager.
On sync at least if you open tall images from the post it will be readable.
On the website you can zoom.
I'm using Voyager. I can zoom in on the image

Wow, there’s a lot more pedophilia stuff on there than I initially realized. Really blatant shit too? I’m surprised that’s even allowed without the feds cracking down on it immediately, because the whole point of ActuvityPub is that everything is open. So how the hell do the pedos manage to hide their tracks?

sign up to a non pedo instance that list and you'll actually see and talk about stuff instead of having a leftoid circle jerk.

Yeah, lovely conversations about how jews control the world, how non-whites are destroying the world, how "certain people" being genocided wouldn't be bad
- I accept your concession.

lol. I'm pawoo user

describe pawoo to me
- Decided to check it out to figure out what was going on. There's 'anime women look young' and then there's straight up lolicon. DO NOT the pawoo
  Edit : There were also like celebrity deepfakes, but that really feels like an afterthought
- Sinful

Is this your overview? If so maybe you could decode some of the punycode in the domains

I see one up there, срёт[.]онлайн, "shit dot online"
- Weird, nr 86 doesn't seem to be decoded.

It doesn't seem like a particularly social activity

What's the problem with blob.cat ?

As long as the pedo shit is blocked i dont see why u would want to defederate instead of letting each user block what they want. We need a user level federated blocklist.

If you want to see far-right content and spam, join a far-right server or run your own, rather than trying to shame server owners into doing what you want.
Admins are entitled to decide what they platform and what they don't. On top of that, the user experience of "just block 100 servers of Nazis and incels to get to the content you want to see" is complete dogshit.
This "it should all be user level" is just apologist bullshit.
- Did anybody say admins aren't entitled to block stuff? User just wanted a system to see everything and block what they didn't want.
  Fuck off with this aggressive bad-faith shit.