cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/113726
I couldn’t find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.
This is a little site I built: the Defederation Investigator defed.xyz. With it, you can get a comprehensive view of which instances have blocked yours, as well as which ones you are federated with.
The tool is open source and available on GitHub. Hopefully someone will find it useful, enjoy.
You should probably cache results so users aren’tspamming other instances
Looks like the usage may have gone over Vercel’s usage policy (I’m not super familiar with Vercel)? I see the following when trying to bring it up:
402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLEDThat’s very useful, thank you @[email protected]
Just to note if copying the URL you have to strip off the https:// or else it won’t work (maybe people just don’t copy that these days, but I ran in to that problem anyway).
Uh yeah that is true. This was a one afternoon project, so I kinda threw the frontend together without thinking too much of it. I guess truncating the protocol instead of relying on the users doing it makes sense.
Also: tested it on mobile. And my probe capitalized the first letter, returning an “instance not found”.
Noted, adding a forced
.toLowerCase(). I’m implementing all of the feedback I’ve received thus far right now.Awesome!
@[email protected] @[email protected] both changes have been pushed and deployed, thank you for your feedback.
ok, it seems to be working 😆
even lemmynsfw defederated them, lol 🤣 why?
they are are extremely obnoxious mix of tankies and some other leftists who might have been slightly less obnoxious if they were on their own, but being in the group with said tankies, you don’t want them any more than the former
i apologize for grammar structure of my sentence and hope it makes some sense
if you have few days of time to kill you can check this thread where lemm.ee admin is asking lemm.ee users about their opinion on defederating them. they brigade the thread in such a way they make more than 77% of the 2k comments in the thread (not exaggerating - the thread has 1920 comments when viewed from lemm.ee and 425 when viewed from lemmy.world which blocks them) and explain their philosophy in the process. so you will understand stuff like “who absolutely needs to be murdered for the crime of having more money than you in order to make world more just place & other tankies’ wisdom”.
you have to acknowledge that they did really good job of introducing themselves, though - i had no idea they even existed the day before that thread and i am firm proponent of “defederate. now.” today 😆
No better boner killer than people spamming mao’s dong.
I normally hate the whole de-federation thing, but the radlib chapocels there are annoying af.
I couldn’t find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.
Literally the first link on join-lemmy.org has a table showing all instances and it shows both how many instances that instance is blocking "and* how many other instances are blocking that instance
how many instances that instance is blocking "and* how many other instances are blocking that instance
how’s that helpful if you don’t know which ones
Very cool, ive been wondering about who defeds the most and now I know. Thanks.
Never seen exploding-heads before, so I went to their page … turns out they’re leaving lemmy and the fediverse for nostr: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290
Main reason being all the “censorship” (ie defederation) they’ve received.
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What is nostr?
Crypto social media as far as I can tell. It is essentially a microblog. Jack Dorsey is into it, and weird is that cares more about it than BlueSky.
Didn’t wanna be friends with those le redditors anyways
Yeah, not really surprising. Radical left is usually shunned much more readily than the far right.
Really says a lot about the liberals around us.
I wonder what happens when you scratch them
Oh wow, I just looked up Lemmygrad and was shocked and dissapointed at the results, seeing the Exploding Heads results changed that dissapointment to complete disgust.
Thank you for this, @[email protected]
Oh I forgot about this community. Thank you for spreading the word.
You are welcome, thank you for your work!
Thanks, bookmarked!
Just linking a similar tool because I haven’t seen it being mentioned yet: https://fba.ryona.agency/
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It’s made by kiwifarms though
I didn’t know, thanks for letting me know. I frankly do not care though, in the exact same way that I do not care that Lemmy is made by tankies.
The interesting bit would be how people with these extreme agencies abuse these tools or their users to further their goals.
As I see it, both cases are questionable people providing useful tools free for me to use. Wether I use these tools or not, has what impact in regards to their agenda? I certainly would not like to be a pawn in their game, or support their cause without consent.
If you think that’s what happens, please show me. That would be very interesting to know and might lead to me ceasing usage / recommendation.
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Lemmy devs may have controversial political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.
Not just that, in all interactions with them, I’ve never found the devs to be anything but respectful.
Well, that is partially because they leave the less respectful interactions to their alt-accounts ;)
But yes, the software is written with good intentions.
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KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.
I haven’t heard of them. What are they about?
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Oh I think Danny Brown mentioned this on one of his podcasts. Thanks.
Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.
Let’s go even further than that. Let’s say that the most annoying people around the whole Fediverse are Hexbear. On the worst days, all they do is to organize to spam specific threads, which is indeed annoying, but that’s the extent of it. KiwiFarms is responsible for harassing people until they commit suicide for the heinous crime of being weird. Anyone aware of this who wants to associate with them has no place in civilized society.
I’m not sure how the developer’s intention or leaning affects me. Or how my usage or non-usage affects their intention or leaning, or how they can act on it. Maybe my usage provides data for them to improve their tools? But since the tools themselves are agnostic, I’m not sure how that’s a bad thing either.
if there’s a good alternative with no such controversies
Strictly speaking about functionality, I saw no alternative which is on par to the .agency tool. It has more features, is faster, provides more information and causes less strain on network servers. At least that’s my quick impression.
Anyways, thanks for the conversation!
What I’d really like to have is a tool that lists blocked communities. That information is not as public as defederated instances.
aaaand it’s down. worked this morning but now it fails with PAYMENT_REQUIRED
6 instances have. Out of 1350ish.
A total of 29 users. Oh my.
any reason why sopuli.xyz isn’t included?
You can ask the creator (see the original post that I crossposted)
Wait why is “dubvee.org” defederated from my instance? Interesting…
Ask them and report back.
They don’t have any contact info, I guess I should PM from another instance.
Its really strange since there is no porn, controversial opinions or else on the instance.
Might be your TLD blocked by whatever firewall they’re using?
Nope it was about a removed community. They’re refederated now.
Looks like the only people not federated with the midwest are super small instances that aren’t federated a big way with anyone.
We got 10 detractors!
