Why YSK: Choosing an instance with defederation policies you’re most comfortable with is important to make your Fediverse experience smooth in the long run.

Here is a chart showing the defederation count of each instance.

Instance Defederated with how many other instances
beehaw.org 405
feddit.de 101
lemmy.world 63
lemmy.ml 44
sh.itjust.works 4
exploding-heads.com 3

You can get it by going to the instance’s instance list and scrolling/Ctrl+Fing down to “Blocked Instances”. To find the instance list, go to https://your-instance.url/instances, for example, https://lemmy.world/instances

  • vortic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They also defederated from instances that have open sign-ups because they allow bots to join too easily. This included lemmy.world.

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      1 year ago

      The most unpleasant people I’ve encountered here have all come from lemmy.world, so perhaps this wasn’t such a bad move for them.