I shall inform you of a secret. There are some big servers around that don't defederate anything and aren't defederated by anyone. :) that's all I'm saying, it's up to you to find the treasure.
Did you know that .ee is the Estonian tld? Estonia in Estonian is Eesti. Sunaurus is from Estonia and runs the c/Eesti community. The Estonian language is one of the few living relatives of the Finnish language (a member of the Finnic language family).
Yeah idk that drama. Tbh I'm just pissed about the defederation situation and am looking for places that aren't as isolated. I googled trying to find drama about technowix and didn't find it.
I can somehow agree with a few things you say, but overall I think the premise is wrong. The fact is not that most blocks or even half the blocks are due to having illegal or bad content. I also don't know any defederation based on language or any such matter (especially since languages seen is already solved by your profile selection of language). Most blocks are automated, especially for instances that have trouble handling bot sign-ups, or those that have moderation issues. I think that the assumptions that one can make are indeed dangerous but they're not based in reality, but in imaginary facts about what defederation means. Obviously, since we're growing very fast, I agree that newcomers and less technically minded people may believe this is the case and use blocklists to justify random assumptions. But in the end, they would be entirely wrong, and wrong assumptions can be made about practically anything, so I wouldn't put much value or thought into the possible wraponizationability of instance defederation lists.
The problem with dbzer0 is the same we had talked about before (edit: I talked with someone else from lemmy.ninja about this topic, your instance was blocked before). It's old news. It's from when you had a bot problem. Ryona has a cache and doesn't clear it too often.
The problem with toot.foundation has nothing to do with that, though. I have no idea why they would block you. You can find the up to date list of blocked instances on a mastodon by going to the https://instance.tld/about. For example, for toot.foundation, which does block lemmy.ninja, here is the updated blocklist at the bottom, you have to click Moderated servers: https://toot.foundation/about
There are 3 categories in settings on your server, as far as I know: Linked, Allowed and Blocked. I don't know the difference between Linked and Allowed, but yes, these links contain multiple lists on the same page. The format is the following: https://domain.tld/instances, you will normally find from 1 to 3 lists there, (the Linked, Allowed and Blocked lists). Linked is normal, Blocked is defederated. Idk what Allowed is but I think it is also federated so 🤷
you're wrong, your site is allowed by all the lists I mentioned.
So these lists can be used as weapons, if they work
These lists are not weapons, they are provided by the instances themselves. They are not false or artificial. They are current, and they display exactly what is real in the configuration of the servers.
Nah, by not following the footsteps of a bunch o people who think they know better than me, I am at best finding pleasure in life and not following the spooky arbitrary rules others set for me. It's not short-term thinking, it's long-term thinking about what's best for me. My effect on me will always be much greater than the infinitesimaly small effect I have on a collective made up of hundreds of thousands of people. As long as I'm not trolling or ruining people's experiences, I am free to do whatever I want.
And besides, you're arguing about the biggest possible problem that there will be, and even then the effect I can have is tiny. My effect on other things such as the SJW-Beehaw block, or the lemmyworld-beehaw block, is even tinier, because these two are not even targeting each other, but are simply trying to make moderation easier. My so-called "ban-evasion" would not be harmful to any as I am not even the target of this "ban".
If you now intentionally look for a instance that federats both with these instances and the one run by Facebook, that is a form of ban evasion that is indirectly detrimental to the health of the wider Fediverse.
No it isn't. Let's say I join "littlehorseylemmy.org" which has, say, 30 people, and I just wanna see what the facebookers are doing and what the regular lemmings are doing, as long as I am not sharing content between sides, I am not even affecting any of both sides.
Both these instances are temporarily blocked by beehaw as they couldn’t get trolls originating from these two instances under control otherwise.
Yup. And if I wanna interact with Beehaw, I need to do it from elsewhere. In my case, I use Lemm.ee because it has both SJW and Beehaw.
and you really should not join such instances as long as this situation remains as it is.
I joined right after SJW was created. I had no idea there would be problems with management. Many people don't even know about this. And how could they, if they don't check the list of instances that are blocked or asked why such and such are blocked?
Still, that doesn't mean that there aren't valuable communities in SJW. If I wanna interact with them, I need to know from where I can do that, and from where I can't. From Beehaw, for example, I can't. So after checking the little tool I'd know that Beehaw is not the right community to join because it sucks cuz it has too much banned stuff that I wanna see.
As I said, linking is automatic. You don’t need to know if something is linked as it is automatically linked as soon as you want.
And I said, the purpose is not to link. Linking is not the purpose. It has nothing to do with the purpose.
The purpose is to interact. This tool checks if you can interact. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, simple as that. If you want to interact but the instance you're considering can't, then you put it in your back pocket and keep looking.
And gmail is an exceptionally bad example as they spamblock just about anyone other that a few others that are too big to block. And they do so for pure business reasons as they want you to switch to gmail.
Yeah bad example. It's more like you have a sniper's rifle and you wanna see if you can pop a head or whether that head is vaccinated against the exact brand of bullet that you're carrying. Except instead of bullet it's a comment, and instead of head it's a post that you wanna comment on.
I shall inform you of a secret. There are some big servers around that don't defederate anything and aren't defederated by anyone. :) that's all I'm saying, it's up to you to find the treasure.