• Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    71·
    10 months ago

    I agree. I think relying too heavily on blocklists can be a detriment to the growth and decentralization of the Fediverse. Who even decides what ends up on them? Maybe you pass through the crossair of whoever handles that while they’re having a bad day and boom, you’re barred out of 2/3 of all the content.

    • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I don’t mind big blocklists honestly, the problem with auditing is purely on a UX side - if we would have a way to sort/filter isntances by software and have some kind of grouping (“all of these instances are on a list of badies”), it wouldn’t be such a problem.

      What’s really a problem is whitelisting. It’s proactively punishing those who use small/personal instances, and not federating is much easier than defederating, so it’ll more probably be abused by admins.

      • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        What’s really a problem is whitelisting.

        Agreed. Fortunately very few instances rely on that. The only decently big one is hexbear.net, the second biggest both of our instances are barred from has 41 active users and all the others have only a single digit of active users. Not that big of a loss.

        Data for your instance: https://defed.xyz/check/eviltoast.org

        • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I can imagine whitelisting to become more popular as Lemmy user base grows and communities become more suitable for lurkers and non-techies who know nothing about federation.

          Data for your instance: https://defed.xyz/check/eviltoast.org

          It’s such a contrast seeing blank blocklist after using Beehaw and blahaj honestly. Small instances are so much better tbh. And this tool is great, thanks! I hope we’ll figure out how to get a list of blocked communities somehow. This lack of transparency is so annoying.

          • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            For real. Small instances ftw. Glad you enjoy my tool. Investigating blocked communities might be a feature for a future upgrade, thanks for the idea.