Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator.

Part of the problem is the instance’s open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup. This in combination with an inactive admin is a recipe for abuse.

We hope this is only temporary but we have to do this to protect our users.

Edit: we use fediseer, have a look https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

Edit 2: We got in touch with the Feddit.nl admin. Email requirements were added to the sign-up process and we’re setting up a communication channel. So that means we are federating with Feddit.nl again!

  • Izzy
    4•2 years ago

    If we could control instance level blocking on a user level it would be much more feasible.

    • hypelightfly
      6•2 years ago

      In general sure, but not for problems like this. That wouldn’t address the issue in the OP at all.

      • Izzy
        1•2 years ago

        It won’t protect a server from getting illegal content on their drives. Best to defederate if that is happening and can’t be dealt with otherwise. If you have some other method of dealing with illegal content on your server and wanted to host a Lemmy instance that is federated with everything it would only be appealing to me if I could block instances myself.

        • Antik 👾
          3•2 years ago

          I don’t get this? You understand that it won’t protect a server from getting illegal content on their drives but you still want a server that is federated with everything so that you yourself can choose what to block?

          • Izzy
            2•2 years ago

            Those two things don’t seem conflicting. Some bad actor right now could upload illegal content to lemmy.world. It’s not like lemmy.world can defederate with itself as a solution. It must deal with it by deleting the content. An instance could potentially delete illegal content coming from everywhere on the lemmyverse. This would take a lot of work so if you didn’t want to bother doing that for instances other than your own you would defederate.

            If some instance owner for whatever reason decided to take on this work either manually or with some automated process that allowed an instance to exist that is federated with everything, but clear of illegal content then it would be an appealing instance. Assuming I could curate my own instance block list.

    • Antik 👾
      4•2 years ago

      That won’t change how we would handle instances with bad actors?

      • Izzy
        2•2 years ago

        Sure. This isn’t a solution to the problem lemmy.world is having. I just think this feature should exist.