Hi. After discovering the connected instances list on my instance, I saw a huge list of blocked ones, which(as I assume) is unique for each instance. So, I started to wonder: is there an instance that federates with as much others as possible and has the smallest black list? Maybe some kind of an observer instance on which you can access as much of Fediverse as it is possible? Thanks in advance.
Lemmy.today currently has an empty blocklist and the following instance policy in the sidebar:
We dont block any other active instances. We will keep it that way unless it becomes a moderation problem.
Thanks for the info.
Just to let you know. Most of the blocked instances you see for programming.dev (since your account is here) aren’t forums you would normally interact with but are various ones on the microblog side that cause issues (for hate speech, spam bots that have seo spam posted in various threads, cp, etc.). For forums running lemmy and piefed the amount is very low.
Okay, thanks.
Just want to +1 the above.
I get what you’re asking, but in practice, a considerable blocklist has to exist for pure security and practical reasons (like spam, phishing, cp and such).
Lemmy zip has some instances blocked by default on the user level, but you can unblock them on your settings. This was the reason I migrated here after lemm ee went down.
I like this as its my prefered style. blocking that can be reversed by the user. I get the idea they don’t want a bad default user experience. I also understand defederation for legal reasons.
It has some defederations, albeit not many.
You can view them at:
And clicking on “Blocked Instances”.
Lemmy.today is blocking no one, and I don’t think many instances block them.
mander.xyz
I looked on my instance’s federation (fedia.io) just to see what it was, and while the defederated list wasn’t nearly as long compared to the federated, what struck me is how many there are. Lots of people out there with their own now. And from what it looked like, most of the defederated ones seem to be single user ones, so that tracks for how many spammers there used to be in the first year vs. now.
Sh.itjust.works has really good federation
I’ve never looked into how to do it, but I think you could host your own local instance and not block anything?
Recently it became a little bit to expensive to buy a separate computer for this purposes, so I would like to see some alternatives(if they exist) before spending money on a small server.
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