So I’ve been wondering, how do I see if I’m seing a post from a server that’s defederated from the instance I’m registered on? Like for example beehaw, which defederated from lemmy.world.

  • ShittyKopper [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy the software publishes all (de)federations of an instance at the /instances endpoint

    For example, Beehaw’s (de)federations are at https://beehaw.org/instances
    and my own single-user instance has them at https://lemmy.w.on-t.work/instances (which is slightly different as I run Lemmy 0.18)

    If you are looking for the reverse of this, there is a tool that shows that information, but the creators of it are suspicious to say the least (as in, will openly associate with KF kinda suspicious)

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    i was just thinking this too… easy enough to see who we have defederated but idk bout the inverse … following !

  • @Jellybeen
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    51 year ago

    This sort of thing really puts me off the fediverse. I hate someone else deciding what I should be able to see

    • @Dark_Blade
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      41 year ago

      Well that’s true with every platform. Even on Reddit, you could get instabanned from like 50 subreddits run by the same powermod for saying a no-no word; that too automatically via a bot.

    • 𝕭𝖚𝖑𝖚 𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖆
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      1 year ago

      I agree, though I also understand the reasoning behind blocking some of those instances. See here https://lemmy.world/instances

      and just open the first blocked instance (burggit), read the info sidebar

      Cooking up a platform for Free Thought And Expression! (NSFW & Loli/Shota/Cub friendly!) Minimal Restrictions on Content/Speech.

      that’s some scary shit

      though you’re also free to make another account in a more lax server.

  • @Candelestine
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    1 year ago

    This is actually surprisingly hard to do! People will get around to it I’m sure.

    So far my most successful method is to googlefu my way through with keywords and browsing posts.

    But, here’s some fun resources that can kinda-sorta-not-really help:

    1. lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
    2. lemmymap.feddit.de

    The map in particular is extraordinarily cool but rather difficult to discern useful info from. I can tell you from it that lemmy.world is currently defederated by only one other Instance. Which is easy to figure out from there at this point.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I deal with it by going to the remote instance and checking there, as outlined already. All the Lemmy instances I sign into only block for spam, very sparingly for content. So I don’t have to worry about local blocks. The one I always have to check remotely is beehaw.org because they house many communities of interest for me and block outside instances liberally.

  • SalaTris
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    11 year ago

    For any given instance who decides what other instances to federate with? Is it just the arbitrary decision of the server maintainer? The mods? Democracy of the users?