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Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator (defed.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/113726

I couldn't find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.

This is a little site I built: the Defederation Investigator defed.xyz. With it, you can get a comprehensive view of which instances have blocked yours, as well as which ones you are federated with.

The tool is open source and available on GitHub. Hopefully someone will find it useful, enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As I see it, both cases are questionable people providing useful tools free for me to use.

Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

If you think that’s what happens, please show me. That would be very interesting to know and might lead to me ceasing usage / recommendation.

I just see no reason to use a tool made by controversial people with awful intention if there's a good alternative with no such controversies. But you can decide for yourself, I just wanted to inform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy devs may have controversial political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

Not just that, in all interactions with them, I've never found the devs to be anything but respectful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, that is partially because they leave the less respectful interactions to their alt-accounts ;)

But yes, the software is written with good intentions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

I haven't heard of them. What are they about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like a forum with a focus on targeted trolling and harassment. There's a wiki page on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I think Danny Brown mentioned this on one of his podcasts. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

Let's go even further than that. Let's say that the most annoying people around the whole Fediverse are Hexbear. On the worst days, all they do is to organize to spam specific threads, which is indeed annoying, but that's the extent of it. KiwiFarms is responsible for harassing people until they commit suicide for the heinous crime of being weird. Anyone aware of this who wants to associate with them has no place in civilized society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure how the developer's intention or leaning affects me. Or how my usage or non-usage affects their intention or leaning, or how they can act on it. Maybe my usage provides data for them to improve their tools? But since the tools themselves are agnostic, I'm not sure how that's a bad thing either.

if there’s a good alternative with no such controversies

Strictly speaking about functionality, I saw no alternative which is on par to the .agency tool. It has more features, is faster, provides more information and causes less strain on network servers. At least that's my quick impression.

Anyways, thanks for the conversation!