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

  • @[email protected]
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    731 year ago

    There are right-wing instances of Mastodon (gab, truth, and others), not to mention many Pleroma ones, as well as Lemmy (exploding heads, and probably others). It’s just that they get quickly defederated by everyone else for various valid reasons (usually hate and abuse, sometimes even child porn), so you don’t get to interact with them much. They just get stuck in their own bubble.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            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 😨

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              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.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year 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”

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                I know Gab is not federated, idk about Truth Social but maybe you’re right and that’s why isn’t even listed with the other blocked instances

      • Ibis
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        71 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year 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.

        • deejay4am
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          31 year ago

          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.

          • Em Adespoton
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            11 year 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.