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.

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    1 year ago

    Defederation means we have disconnected our instance from another, and our users will no longer be able to see communities, posts or comments from users on the defederated instance.

    It should be noted that it’s a two way street, no? They won’t see any content from here either?

    Also, I thought single community ban from other instances wasn’t possible yet? I remember the vlemmy guy saying that before going MIA.

    • nbats@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPM
      15·
      1 year ago

      Yeah good point, I just added that it goes both ways. As far as blocking single communities go I don’t have all the details but I’ve been told we’ve done it for one so far.

    • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been hearing different answers on this lately, particularly regarding Lemmy.world and Beehaw. Beehaw defederated LW, but not vice versa. The result is that no one on Beehaw can see any posts on LW, but users on LW are seeing some posts on Beehaw. It doesn’t seem to be a complete cut to all communication.

      But that’s still something worth bringing up - Here is the list of instances that block FMHY, and are (somewhat) effectively isolated from us here:

      https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmy.fmhy.ml

      The only one that’s significant is feddit.de. From what I can tell, it’s because FMHY has open registration