I remember it was on the list of blocked instances, but now it’s not, and my page was just flooded with content from there - was that intentional?

  • Tiff@reddthat.comMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hello “Givesomefucks”,

    I’m sorry that you are having troubles. Federation happens when users on our instance search for a community on another instance. As you can see from “All”, we currently have a couple of users on Reddthat who has subscribed to the communities on exploding-heads.

    Community				Subscribers
Dank memes@exploding-heads.com	2
Digital Freedom@exploding-heads.com	0
Australia@exploding-heads.com	1
Healthy Living@exploding-heads.com	1
Japan@exploding-heads.com		2
Food Security@exploding-heads.com	0
Kansas@exploding-heads.com		1

    I agree that the current moderation controls are non-existent. This is a known issue for users, moderators and server administrators alike. The Lemmy fediverse went from ~2000 active users to over 100k in a little over a week. These issues are problems that the developers and users are finding and creating fixes for.

    There are only two real levels/options available for us.

    • Server Admins: Defederation (which blocks every community for every user on that instance)
    • Users: Blocking a Community or User (removes that content from your feed)

    What is coming out soon (I hope) will be the option for Users to perform a block/filter on an instance level. That would completely solve your problem as I understand it.

    If they are specifically targeting you, attacking other Reddthat users or completely attacking Reddthat at a whole. Then we would consider defederating. That goes with any instance in the fediverse, and does not go specifically towards this instance.
    I try to be very transparent with these items, as do other server admins. Making a unilateral decision to block an instance purely on different opinions is something that goes against the type of community that I would like Reddthat to become. People are able to have different opinions. Without a different of opinions, the world would be a very boring place.

    I hope you understand our point of view, why the federation initially happened. When and why a defederation would happen, and that moderation & filtering tools for users will be coming soon.

    Cheers,
    Tiff