How do I see if a community/server defederated?
So I've been wondering, how do I see if I'm seing a post from a server that's defederated from the instance I'm registered on? Like for example beehaw, which defederated from lemmy.world.
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Lemmy the software publishes all (de)federations of an instance at the /instances endpoint
For example, Beehaw's (de)federations are at https://beehaw.org/instances
and my own single-user instance has them at https://lemmy.w.on-t.work/instances (which is slightly different as I run Lemmy 0.18)
If you are looking for the reverse of this, there is a tool that shows that information, but the creators of it are suspicious to say the least (as in, will openly associate with KF kinda suspicious)
what's KF?
i was just thinking this too... easy enough to see who we have defederated but idk bout the inverse ... following !
You could manually look it up, again not the best answer to your question. https://fba.ryona.agency/
Amazing! I think you fully answered the question, thank you!
https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmy.world
@[email protected], here's yours: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=sh.itjust.works
Also notifying @[email protected]
Ooh fantastic. Tyvm.
This sort of thing really puts me off the fediverse. I hate someone else deciding what I should be able to see
Well that’s true with every platform. Even on Reddit, you could get instabanned from like 50 subreddits run by the same powermod for saying a no-no word; that too automatically via a bot.
I agree, though I also understand the reasoning behind blocking some of those instances. See here https://lemmy.world/instances
and just open the first blocked instance (burggit), read the info sidebar
that's some scary shit
though you're also free to make another account in a more lax server.
This is actually surprisingly hard to do! People will get around to it I'm sure.
So far my most successful method is to googlefu my way through with keywords and browsing posts.
But, here's some fun resources that can kinda-sorta-not-really help:
The map in particular is extraordinarily cool but rather difficult to discern useful info from. I can tell you from it that lemmy.world is currently defederated by only one other Instance. Which is easy to figure out from there at this point.
If you put /instances after the URL, e.g. beehaw.org/instances, it will list all linked and blocked servers.
is this list not good? https://lemmy.world/instances
it shows both linked and blocked instances from lemmy.world, the link is also at the bottom of the site, in the same place that shows the site version
This doesn't quite answer your question but has some info on defederation - https://lemmy.world/post/149743
I deal with it by going to the remote instance and checking there, as outlined already. All the Lemmy instances I sign into only block for spam, very sparingly for content. So I don't have to worry about local blocks. The one I always have to check remotely is beehaw.org because they house many communities of interest for me and block outside instances liberally.
For any given instance who decides what other instances to federate with? Is it just the arbitrary decision of the server maintainer? The mods? Democracy of the users?