I am not criticizing them, I'm just out of the loop.

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Does SDF not defederate anyone?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Going by https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances, it seems that not yet. I haven't run into any issues though, and have never seen a post from or noticed anyone from exploding heads, thankfully.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah I was going to ask do you see a bunch of spam from them in the new feed? The admin guy posts so much stuff with 0 engagement it's weird.

    Just found it interesting the SDF seems like the most federated instance on here https://federation-checker.vercel.app/ weird.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    From this link it seems that almost no one is blocking exploding heads… and I just found out that my instance isn’t even blocking truth social 😨

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Isn't this just a good indicator that there might not be a need to defederate? If they aren't causing problems for your users than it doesn't seem right to defed preemptively.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah I thought that some people was asking to defederate but not from my instance, it was from beehaw iirc… I agree that if they are not spamming or trolling there’s no need to defederate, but some users don’t like their “if it’s not openly racist/transphobic it’s allowed because free speech”

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm also on SDF. Can confirm that while we're still federated with exploding-heads, I never see their content in my feeds. Ever.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Interesting. I wonder if the main community they spam in are just banned and not the instance. I got so much spam from one user who posted like several things an hour all day with no engagement on any posts when I would sort by new before we defederated. It was weird.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If no one on that instance subscribed to a community, doesn’t it not show up in your all feed? Maybe just no one on that instance subscribes to any explodingheads communities.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I think this is the key. There’s no need to defederate if nobody’s subscribing to their content in the first place on your instance.

    Seeing a flood of content you dislike on your instance from another instance means there’s at least one person on your instance subscribing to it.

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