We’ve defederated from :

lemmy.k6qw.com,lemmy.podycust.co.uk,waveform.social,bbs.darkwitch.net,cubing.social,lemmy.roombob.cat,lemmy.jtmn.dev,lemmy.juggler.jp,bolha.social,sffa.community,dot.surf,granitestate.social,veenk.help,lemmyunchained.net,wumbo.buzz,lemmy.sbs,lemmy.shwizard.chat,clatter.eu,mtgzone.com,oceanbreeze.earth,mindshare.space,lemmy.tedomum.net,voltage.vn,lemmy.fyi,demotheque.com,thediscussion.site,latte.isnot.coffee,news.deghg.org,lemmy.primboard.de,baomi.tv,marginalcuriosity.net,lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com,lemmy.game-files.net,lemmy.fedi.bub.org,lemmy.blue,lemmy.easfrq.live,narod.city,lemmy.ninja,lemmy.reckless.dev,nlemmy.nl,lemmy.mb-server.com,rammy.site,fedit.io,diggit.xyz,slatepacks.com,theotter.social,lemmy.nexus,kleptonix.com,rabbitea.rs,zapad.nstr.no,feddi.no

based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus@lemm.ee here - Thank you again for that work, it’s highly appreciated.

This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don’t think this will have a great effect on anyone’s usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org

  • AndrasKrigare@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Do you believe this will be a workable model going forward, or are you considering changing to an Allowlist for federation and have instances specifically request to federate?

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      we don’t think we need to switch to an allowlist–we actually haven’t been hit by this spam problem much if at all to this point–but we’d also really like it if we had better mod tools so we can just flat rule out needing to switch to one ever

      • blazix@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I can also see there being blocklists similar to uBlock Origin or other browser extensions. Except, it will be done at the instance level by admins.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      An allowlist would be nice if non-Allowlisted instances could still be discoverable by people using Beehaw IMO.

        • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I mean, anyone could send us an email and we’d do a quick review. Adding then removing someone from the allowlist is easier if they cause trouble.