You can check for any instance who they have federated with and who they have blocked by navigating to their /instances page. For example for Beehaw: https://beehaw.org/instances
That link is showing lemmy.world as blocked. I’m still new to all this but isn’t that a reputable instance?
Explained here: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
TL;DR: Beehaw does not currently have the resources and/or tools that they feel are necessary to moderate the incoming users from lemmy.world.
Well shit, I guess I gotta leave beehaw because now half my subscriptions are dead now.
Yeah it sucks a bit. Signed, a recent ex-Beehaw-er.
kbin.social has access to both beehaw and lemmy.world
I was about to comment how I didn’t know the reasoning either, but then I checked and it seems there is a stickied post on beehaw.org
Check it out!
500 Internal Server Error
Does that mean beehaw defederated lemmy.click? :(
Or what would that look like if I want to check /instances, coming from a defederated instance?
I think it just means their server is having some trouble serving requests 😅
That’s a public URL on Beehaw side, so whenever you open that URL, they’ll actually have no way of knowing what your home instance is what its federation status is.
Does not load for me
Let it sit for a minute or two, can be slow.
So far I know just that
beehivebeehaw.org defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.worksWhy is that?
edit: found why https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Well that sucks. There were a lot of of densely populated communities on beehaw that I enjoyed being a part of. Guess I’ll find new ones.
the nature of federation/decentralization makes it a bit hard to get a central list. some instances publicly list which other instances they blocked and which they federate list. but other than checking each instance one by one, I’m not sure there’s a way to know.
I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same thing, but you can click on Instances at the very bottom of the instance, or add “/instances” to the url e.g. https://lemmy.ml/instances to see the list of blocked instances.
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This is super interesting. I didn’t know this page existed. Thank you for pointing this out!
I think you can see how many instances an instance has defederated from here, in the “Bl” column https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances. scroll down to All Lemmy Instances
