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I do know of several instances that throttle or defederate mastodon.social so that part is true. Fortunately migration is fairly straightforward if you're worried about that though!
What's the reason for defederating from them? Aren't they like the original Masto instance? What kind of moderation issues are going on there?
They're slow to respond to moderation issues. Which is fine when you're talking about 1 errant user on a small instance, but it's not so great when you're talking about a small but ever present percentage of problem users on a mega instance
I'm curious to understand their reasons, too.
I would also like to know more about instances being defederated and for what reason this might be happening.
I can help fill in some of the gaps. Mastodon.social is the flagship instance so you get a bunch of people signing up for it, and at times I think some of the reports overwhelm the moderation team. A few weeks ago there was a big issue with spam bots getting through. Some instance owners have a short fuse for this kind of stuff so they opted to defed from it.
Personally, I’m running a small instance so I did not block it. I follow a lot of accounts from there. The spam bots were annoying though.
Okay, that clicks with other things I’ve heard recently. Thank you.
Spam and bots like other people have said. Then there are the instances that get blocked because of the content and people there. Nazis, racists, trolls, etc. They were coming in from all over during the twitter migration. There was a blocklist on GitHub that was being updated pretty frequently.
ahhh so this is why it seems like mastadon is less diverse than lemmy already!
In Lemmy, you can click on Instances (bottom right) to see a list of federated and defederated instances.
From my point of view (lemmy.click), mastodon.social is federated.
Interesting. Is there any instance which specifically will not defederate from any other?
There are, but they tend to end up being quickly defederated themselves, because they attract bigots who want to share their bigotry without consequence
there are some, but they tend to quickly become spam and nazi instances. I'm guessing even those ones defederate from the instances that only serve malware though
This is what I want to know. I don’t want to be in a walled garden.
There is no instance that is connected to every other instance, and there never will be. Lets say your instance is a free speech instance that doesn't defederate any other instance. Even then, there are instances that will actively block your instance because they block all instances that are willing to federate with bigots in the name of free speech.