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Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated! (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hiya! Question, is there a way we can see this sort of information ourselves as well? Namely, reports and admin activity logs.

What’s to stop an instance, then a collection of instances and so on from claiming others aren’t being actively moderated in order to censor?

Not making any accusations obviously, just a thought I had while reading.

[-] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago

I mean, it's easy to go over to feddit.nl and see they only have one admin who has not been active in almost two weeks.

Full transparancy: the abuse we were dealing with from that instance was vote manipulation and worse, csam. Especially in the case of csam we can not wait for days for a reaction.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Out of curiosity: is this an issue of federating content from feddit.nl's communities, or an issue of feddit.nl's users messing with LW?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Users. That's why it is mentioned there is no email required during sign-up. They create an account in seconds, make a post and then delete their account.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

You guys are doing good work!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Thanks for doing this. I've not had to see any of it because you guys are on top of dealing with it. (Although I also don't sort posts by new, so I probably wouldn't see those posts before they got removed anyway.)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Were they the source of the csam attack posts the other week when we removed picture uploads temporarily?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

No those were from our own instance and is the reason we closed open registrations. We are working on a different solution more on that later.

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