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Better documentation/visibility for blocked instances (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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Please add a new section under "for Users" in https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/overview about the lemmy.ca sitewide blocked instances and reasons. Don't need to list the reason for every single blocked instance but can call out the more noteworthy ones that had a discussion.

Why I'm asking for this is I was trying to subscribe to some communities from lemmit.online but was getting a terse and confusing error. It took a bit of digging to see it was intentionally blocked from lemmy.ca and the reason why.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's good feedback, I agree and I think we can put that information in the guidelines section for lemmy.ca and then link to it from any relevant pages (ex. the threadiverse how to block / report sections). It ties into our new proposed guidelines on our federation policy: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/2-lemmy-ca#federation-policy

For information that is specific to our instance, I prefer to keep it on the other pages so that it is not confusing for non-lemmy.ca users that are reading the guide.

For lemmit.online specifically, we're open to a discussion about federating with it again. If you would like that, could you post on !main@lemmy.ca about it?

[–] SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I posted https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850 in the main community about whether to unblock lemmit.online and the comments are mostly negative.

Was a little journey of exploration as while most peer lemmy servers don't block that instance many of them have banned the bot@lemmit.online user based on lack of recent posts.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Yes it does look like it was banned from some other instances. You can check the mod logs for various users: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=238006

I'm going to explore if we can re-federate, but hide all of the communities so that only subscribed users can see them. I see that the admins of lemmit are not going to add any more communities, so hiding all of them should be feasible. I haven't brought this up with the other admins yet, and I don't know if users will go for it, but that seems like a compromise that the community might support.

[–] SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Here's a suggested starting point for contents:

Sitewide Blocked Instances

lemmy.ca blocks instances at a sitewide basis due to them having inappropriate content. The list of blocked instances can be viewed at:

https://lemmy.ca/instances

Discussion about blocked instances of note:

lemmit.online https://lemmy.ca/post/1380644