Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances.

Today I’m releasing Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS). When launching a new Lemmy instance, administrators may not understand the necessity of defederation with problem instances. Using LDS, you can sync your instance’s “blocked instance” list with that of another server(s) whose admins you trust.

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    1 year ago

    I see where this can be useful, but is this list categorized or at least indicate why a certain instance was added?

    It’s different blocking an instance for simply repeated toxic behavior vs political leanings. Sometimes an instance can have both.

    Letting new admins know and select categories/tags to block or let through could be an improvement, if it isn’t there already:

    • NSFW (sometimes people want a SFW site, like browsing at work)
    • NSFL (porn might be okay but not everyone have fond memories of ogrish.com and likes)
    • Illegal in X jurisdiction (e.g. CSAM)
    • Far right or far left
    • Repeated instances of troll / spam bot accounts
    • Abandoned by admin