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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 201 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks for the transparency, sad to hear as always to see a country specific instance to go unmanaged

Edit: I guess a few people will miss !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl from @freamon@endlesstalk.org

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 74 points 9 months ago

Will probably post to both for a while, until we have some kind of resolution.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 months ago

Just subscribed, good to see you there.

I might migrate !casualconversation@lemmy.world there too in the coming weeks

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

With the refrigeration, which do you consider the canonical community to follow now? You mod both, right? Are you going to keep the bit posting to both?

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 5 points 9 months ago

Love what re-federation got auto-corrected to.

The canonical community is the one at feddit.nl, since it has all the history and I don't really think it's .nl's fault that someone used it to attack .world.

The bot's due to make one more post at endlesstalk (to announce that the problem is over) and then I'll think about what to do with the community (probably delete it)

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

You can still go to the instance and read it, subscribe to it from a non-defederated instance, or even create an account there directly.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Let's also hope it's only temporary.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That assumes that it's not abandoned like rammy.site was, if you don't know rammy.site was a general purpose Lemmy instance a while back which was abandoned by its admin and then some right-wing grifters decided to hijack it and use it to spread hatred. Similarly to this situation they also got defederated, though much more widely then in this case.

The biggest problem is that because they were abandoned eventually the server crashed or the VPS got discontinued or something and now it's gone. If you go to the URL now you get SSL errors and for a while it was showing up as 410 gone. So with Feddit.nl even though you can go and view the contents on it right now if it's abandoned it will likely meet a very similar fate in the near future. Meaning that the community is on it are doomed and will either die or have to migrate elsewhere.