You have already completely misunderstood this “bad list” that you referred to here. It isn’t and even at its peak before 196 mods complained, a block on all communities with those keywords.
You have already completely misunderstood this “bad list” that you referred to here. It isn’t and even at its peak before 196 mods complained, a block on all communities with those keywords.
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Can you explain what it does then? Below is my understanding. Correct me where I am wrong.
The “bad list” blocks any community with that name from being federated. So for example if I go to a random PieFed instance and search for the ‘piracy’ community, I get no results
piefed.co.za/communities?search=piracy&language_i…
The admin can circumvent this by manually adding the community. Some big instances (including yours) have done that, but smaller ones (like the one I linked) haven’t.
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Rimu built a tool for new instance owners to bulk federate external communities on their instance. Kind of like a piefed lemmy-federate. In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up. The keywords were taken from another function that piefed.social has to stop listing posts and comments after 6 months applied to specific communities.
This didn’t translate well, and he removed multiple keywords referenced here from the mass federation tool when 196 mod complained.
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for ‘news’: piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=…
Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Does he have all minor communities on there too?
Yes, but again - it has been adjusted to pretty much just refer to slurs. I actually spoke to him about this weeks ago.