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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by will_steal_your_username to c/main

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.

Edit: We've refedereted.

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Good job mods! Appreciate you protecting this community!

[-] neuracnu 63 points 1 week ago

Dang. I'd always used programming.dev as a verification instance to ensure my posts were migrating across the fed. It's a shame to lose them as a resource.

( ( looks at modlog... ) )

Well ok then. No regrets here.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

How can you see another community's modlog?

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

You can go to programming.dev/modlog

[-] GalacticSushi 1 points 1 week ago

That seems to show every insurance's modlog, not just programming.dev

[-] gressen@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago

Have you tried talking to the admins first?

[-] will_steal_your_username 105 points 1 week 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.

[-] dandelion 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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)

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

Same on our instance. It's ridiculous

[-] dandelion 10 points 1 week ago

love to see cross-instance collaboration 🫡

[-] Cevilia 18 points 1 week ago

Good decision. Thanks. <3

[-] 2hundredpancakes 17 points 1 week ago

What the hell. Ty mods

[-] germanatlas 15 points 1 week ago

Pretty disappointing from p devs side

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago

Based blahaj admins

[-] princess 12 points 1 week ago

dang

I'll miss the programmer memes but that's the smallest price to pay for community safety

Thanks, admins!

(thadmins)

[-] randamumaki 11 points 1 week ago

Well done.

Please continue the good work you're doing to keep the community safe from these trolls until the admins on that server can find a way to keep them out.

Let us hope the solution is easy to implement on their end so they don't suffer unnecessary sleepless nights over it.

May we soon see them refederated. :)

[-] not_IO 10 points 1 week ago

thanks for keeping us safe! also if sounds like respectful and constructive exchange with the admins of their instance which is also great to see!

[-] vzqq 8 points 1 week ago
[-] sureshot0@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hello, its none of my business, but I wouldn't refederate just because the admins seem cool. They might be 'disavowing' rather than giving an actual apology.

[-] Filetternavn 10 points 1 week ago

And if the issue isn't fixed, then they can be defederared again. None of this is permanent

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If we've defederated with them, then how come I can still see posts at lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/opensource@programming.dev?

[-] will_steal_your_username 9 points 1 week ago

Defederation means nothing new is sent or received between the defederated servers. Anything old remains.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 1 points 1 week ago

Oh okay. Thanks. :)

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