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Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024) (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance's users from your communities. If you're constantly banning one instance's users and their admins seem fine with it, there's really no other way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish I, an individual account, could defederate from instances, like some way to block all those instances' users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

the lemmy devs added per user instance blocks a while ago. Check your settings page

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

IIRC that only blocks posts though, not comments :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t block the users; I blocked the NSFW Lemmy, whatever the big one is, because of how much porn would be on the All feed otherwise. I was surprised to see a post or comment from someone whose account was on that instance a few weeks ago, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t want to see so overall I was glad the users are still able to participate elsewhere if that’s what they want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sort of. It does block the users, but only on your specific instance. If you’re interacting with a post on another instance and that instance is federated with them, you’ll still see them on that third instance.

Defederating basically takes the three instances from a closed triangle ◺ (where all users can see and post on all three instances) to an open triangle ∟ (where your instance and the defederated instance are blocked from each other, but the third instance can still see and interact with both.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Very interesting, thank you for the explanation.

Edit: is that just for defederation or also when I block an instance on my account?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That’s only for defederating. Blocking is local, and basically just hides the instance from your feed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I don't think that blocks the users, just the posts? Or does it block users also?