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programming.dev has been defederated (self.main)

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

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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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[-] sureshot0@discuss.online 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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 1 points 47 minutes ago

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

[-] neuracnu 53 points 1 day 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 8 points 1 day ago

How can you see another community's modlog?

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

You can go to programming.dev/modlog

[-] nimble 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Go to the instance (programming.dev) in your browser and at bottom of page it will say "modlog".

Theres also "instances" which is fun to look at and see which servers are federated and defederated from a given server

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I keep forgetting the bottom of a page will have content too, instead of it just scrolling forever. I've caught current-year-itis.

[-] GalacticSushi 4 points 1 day ago

That seems to be showing me the modlogs of all instances, not just programming.dev

[-] randamumaki 8 points 1 day 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. :)

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

Same on our instance. It's ridiculous

[-] dandelion 3 points 7 hours ago

love to see cross-instance collaboration 🫡

[-] newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org 58 points 1 day ago

Good job mods! Appreciate you protecting this community!

[-] not_IO 9 points 1 day 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!

[-] princess 11 points 1 day ago

dang

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

Thanks, admins!

(thadmins)

[-] gressen@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago

Have you tried talking to the admins first?

[-] will_steal_your_username 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 42 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)