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programming.dev has been defederated (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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We’ve been seeing frequent spam waves of targeted harassment from accounts made on programming.dev over the course of several weeks, which has among other unacceptable things contained transphobia, obscene pictures of animals, calling for the victim to commit suicide, and other hateful rhetoric.

For these reasons we are defederating from programming.dev. We may refederate in the future if we have reason to believe there will be no further problems like these from their instance.

Edit: I've spoken with the admins there and I may refederate once I have more details on their application system. To be clear they don't support anything posted by these accounts and are deleting them as they are detected.

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[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Have you tried talking to the admins first?

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 1 day ago

I do intend to send them a DM soon, but defederation happened first so we don't have to deal with the harassment accounts and so users don't have to be exposed to all the abuse.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

Defederation is not punishment, nor is it permanent. It is a reaction of self defense and can be reversed later.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AFAIK the only active admin (who is also the main admin account) was already instance banned from Blahaj for transphobia - so there wasn't an easy way to talk to the admin in the first place ... (at least not from an account on a Blahaj instance)