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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] 65 points 1 year ago

You should probably cache results so users aren’tspamming other instances

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Looks like the usage may have gone over Vercel's usage policy (I'm not super familiar with Vercel)? I see the following when trying to bring it up:

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED 
Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very useful, thank you @[email protected]

Just to note if copying the URL you have to strip off the https:// or else it won't work (maybe people just don't copy that these days, but I ran in to that problem anyway).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh yeah that is true. This was a one afternoon project, so I kinda threw the frontend together without thinking too much of it. I guess truncating the protocol instead of relying on the users doing it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also: tested it on mobile. And my probe capitalized the first letter, returning an “instance not found”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noted, adding a forced .toLowerCase(). I'm implementing all of the feedback I've received thus far right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ok, it seems to be working 😆

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

even lemmynsfw defederated them, lol 🤣 why?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they are are extremely obnoxious mix of tankies and some other leftists who might have been slightly less obnoxious if they were on their own, but being in the group with said tankies, you don't want them any more than the former

i apologize for grammar structure of my sentence and hope it makes some sense

if you have few days of time to kill you can check this thread where lemm.ee admin is asking lemm.ee users about their opinion on defederating them. they brigade the thread in such a way they make more than 77% of the 2k comments in the thread (not exaggerating - the thread has 1920 comments when viewed from lemm.ee and 425 when viewed from lemmy.world which blocks them) and explain their philosophy in the process. so you will understand stuff like "who absolutely needs to be murdered for the crime of having more money than you in order to make world more just place & other tankies' wisdom".

you have to acknowledge that they did really good job of introducing themselves, though - i had no idea they even existed the day before that thread and i am firm proponent of "defederate. now." today 😆

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No better boner killer than people spamming mao's dong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I normally hate the whole de-federation thing, but the radlib chapocels there are annoying af.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Literally the first link on join-lemmy.org has a table showing all instances and it shows both how many instances that instance is blocking "and* how many other instances are blocking that instance

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

how many instances that instance is blocking "and* how many other instances are blocking that instance

how's that helpful if you don't know which ones

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Never seen exploding-heads before, so I went to their page ... turns out they're leaving lemmy and the fediverse for nostr: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290

Main reason being all the "censorship" (ie defederation) they've received.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh I forgot about this community. Thank you for spreading the word.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You are welcome, thank you for your work!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, bookmarked!

Just linking a similar tool because I haven't seen it being mentioned yet: https://fba.ryona.agency/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What I'd really like to have is a tool that lists blocked communities. That information is not as public as defederated instances.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

aaaand it's down. worked this morning but now it fails with PAYMENT_REQUIRED

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

6 instances have. Out of 1350ish.

A total of 29 users. Oh my.

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

any reason why sopuli.xyz isn't included?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait why is “dubvee.org” defederated from my instance? Interesting…

[–] elbarto777 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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