What is Defederation?

Defederation means we have disconnected our instance from another, and users from our instance will no longer be able to see anything (communities, posts or comments) coming from it, and their users won’t be able to see anything coming from ours.

What will get an Instance Defederated?

Our goal is to avoid defederation, but we will do so under the following circumstances:

  • The instance spreads overwhelming amounts of drama, hate or negativity.

  • The instance is mostly made up bots, and or promotes spam.

  • The instance allows the harassment or doxxing of others.

  • The instance knowingly hosts CSAM or other illegal content.

Has FMHY Defederated Instances?

Only two, both for breaking the 1st rule above:

  • exploding-heads

  • lemmygrad

Things to Note:

  • There are circumstances where we may block a specific community within an instance, rather than blocking the entire instance itself, but this is very uncommon.

  • Remember that if there’s a community you don’t like, you can block it entirely in settings.

  • Keep in mind that our goal is to keep this community safe, so if you see something that breaks our rules please don’t hesitate to report it.

  • If its something urgent, you can always contact us easily via Divolt 💬. Its connected to our discord, so there are mods online 24/7.

  • pensivepangolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, what’s the deal with exploding-heads? I keep seeing them referenced negatively all over several instances.

    Edit: thanks for all the replies! I’ve got it now hahaha

    • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
      381·
      1 year ago

      It’s basically alt-right spam. Lots of Breitbart links, right-wing culture war mouthpieces and memes, etc.

      • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        201·
        1 year ago

        Breitbart on the mainstream, centrist posts. Most of it’s way further out there. I have no idea which ones are inauthentic shitposts and which ones are legit. They are way beyond Poe’s Law.

        But more important is when they show up on other instances. Everything becomes an argument, dragging down everyone and everything they encounter. This also can’t be solved by just blocking the communities on EH, it must be blocked at the community’s instance or our (the viewer’s) home instance.

    • CountVonEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      It’s a fairly far-right instance, which makes it unpopular with many left-leaning members of the fediverse. Tt also tends to export a lot of trolls and drama that cause it to get defederated by mainstream instances that don’t want to deal with the moderation hassles.

      • abrasiveteapotEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a fairly far-right instance, which makes it unpopular with many left-leaning members of the fediverse

        As a centrist I’m not a big fan of the far right. You don’t have to be left wing to think fascism is bad

    • Supermariofan67@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      At first I thought it was just some edgy troll community, but it didn’t take long for me to find a fairly upvoted comment saying “look, I just don’t like immigrants” or something like that. So yeah, seems like that kind of place over there…