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 ๐ฌ. Its connected to our discord, so there are mods online 24/7.
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. Hereโs hoping FMHY will be a better fit for me.
I would have preferred to have a no-defederation policy (except for maybe threads due to EEE fears), but as long as it is not swung around constantly, I am okay with it.
The two that are blocked are political circlejerks that I personally dislike anyways. I am hopeful there is not more.
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.
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.
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.
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.