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.