• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    44·
    6 months ago

    What is the point of posting a screenshot (that is poorly cropped to boot) of what is clearly a page you could have just linked?

    Also, what exactly do you mean “top”? The instances that have defederated from the most other instances? The phrasing here is odd.

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    If you’re defederating a lot, most of it will be tiny instances you got from some blocklists, so I don’t know if this really says much

    • AdaAEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      No. It just means that they’ve blocked a lot of other fediverse instances.

        • AdaAEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Mostly, it will be instances blocking troll and hate instances. But the line of what is acceptable varies from one instance/admin to another. The instances on the top of this list most likely just have a lower threshold for tolerating shitty behaviour

          • my_hat_stinks@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            It might not necessarily be that the instances are stricter, it could also simply be that those instances are targeted more often by hate/trolls so interact with those instances more often. Admins are less likely to defederate from an instance they’ve never seen or heard of. I see a lot of obviously LGBT-related names in this list which likely get more hate than average.

            • AdaAEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              It might not necessarily be that the instances are stricter, it could also simply be that those instances are targeted more often by hate/trolls so interact with those instances more often.

              It’s both of those things IMO. Being stricter comes about because of being targeted more. It’s not always just responsive reactions to abuse. Often it’s pre-emptive defederation even before abuse is received, just to ensure it never happens. And that’s the part where “stricter” comes in to it, because a lot of generalist instances are happy to respond only if and when another instance becomes a problem

              At least, that’s how it works on the queer instaces I admin :)