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Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

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Lemmy.ca defederated from Lemmygrad and Hexbear (web.archive.org)
submitted 1 year ago by gsa32@lemmy.world to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3191712

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3302765

I'll start the popcorn machine 🍿

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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm tired of having to screen the same shit every time a new instance spins up with morons like this.

I'm glad they're defederated because they were by far the most screened communities I had in my list prior to learning that Connect just has it's own internal server blacklist and I was able to put their instances on that list globally instead of playing whack-a-mole.

That's something I kind of hate about the fediverse is that every time somebody spins up a new instance I have to go play whack-a-mole again with the usual suspects: sports and politics.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These assholes came out on day fucking one and did nothing but demonstrate that their goal was to be disruptive trolls. And then they sit there and whine about how everyone else is brainwashed, and nobody wants to listen to alternative points of view. That alternative point of view, apparently being pictures of pig shit.

And then they are shocked that people think they are assholes.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Day one was three years ago. You're a bit late.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

every time a new instance spins up

To be fair, Hexbear has been around a lot longer than lemmy.ca

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You defederate or screen all sports content? Is this a personal preference, or do sports subs attract hateful content?

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not a political and sports thing, it's just a sports thing. I just don't care about sports at all, it clogs my feed. I just remember one day checking my front page and there were like 4 back-to-back baseball summary bot threads from that one specific sports instance and that was that.

[–] TheWaterGod@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.ca has been defederated from Lemmygrad ever since I've been a member (June), so that's not anything new. Looks like it goes back to at least September of last year.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I didn't realize that you could put /instances after an instance's URL (e.g., lemmy.ca/instances) and see which are currently linked and blocked (page search can help)

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

page search can help

Ctrl+F, my friend.

[–] zesty@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Bye tankies, you won't be missed

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are communists that don't want anything to do with the real world. Good riddance.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Tankies.

[–] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Not communists lol authoritarians.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was there any vote or announcement about this on lemmy.ca? Or are we hearing after the fact, and on another instance, that our instance has contentiously and quietly defederated from 2 other instances?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No we dropped the ball on this one, we should have posted right away.

Lemmy.ml has been defederated for a long time.

https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I appreciate the post and response!

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I understand that defederating is part of running an instance and that decisions are not always clear cut. If I were an admin, I'd report newly defederated instances in a post or something. It doesn't seem like appreciably more work than what being an admin already entails (which must be a lot!) and makes things transparent. I'm here in the Fediverse because I don't like what's going on on the rest of the big tech internet, and I want to get involved in an alternate model. Hearing that a politically aligned instance was silently defederated on .ca reminds me of what I am hoping to distance myself from online versus find more of now. Ditto for the the downvotes without replies. That said, other commenters have helped me see site maintenance as opposed to political orientation reasons that could motivate defederation. On reflection, I think I want to get involved in an expressly curated (in a way that I approve of) and/or pretty transparent Fediverse environment

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The great thing about the fediverse is that no one can stop you from participating in those instances. You can create local accounts as I have done on several instances. The mobile clients let you switch easily between accounts on different instances

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I agree! I strongly believe we should be transparent with actions such as defederation.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I'm against defederation for political reasons. This feels like a mistake that will serve only to reinforce echo chambers online.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They weren't "defederated for political reasons". What they were doing wasn't good faith political speech. They were trolls who's only purpose was creating chaos. If you're really dedicated to their actions this is the fediverse, you can create an account there and read and participate as much as you want. Every user can decide for themselves if there is anything of any value there. I don't think so so I'll be staying right here.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woohooo!!!! Free at last!!!

[–] asuka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a certain irony to celebrating the admins building a wall between two communities as "freedom".

[–] Guns4Gnus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

If a community exists only to cause issues and inflame culture warrior issues (such as anti-woke,) they don't deserve to be given an honest chance.

Honest chances exist for honest people. If they refuse to abide by the common rules of decency, and instead want to treat the place like /b/, we have no obligations to let them be heard.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

If you think there is anything of value on either of those instances you can create accounts on both and participate directly. That's what's great about the fediverse.