I saw talk of them being federated with instances like “exploding heads” (literal neo-nazis) and “posting lolis rocks”, along with having interactions from users there. Is that true? idk how to check for that, I can only just barely stumble around the normal forum interface.
If so, why? They’ve been going hard on purging communists user-by-user and comment-by-comment, which seems like a little bit of a secondary concern to nazis and pedos, especially something as simple as just blocking the instances at the very least. What’s going on over there?
What I mentioned, if it is correct, might not be exhaustive, I’m just repeating what I heard about.
You’re probably aware that most instances default to open federation and only block an instance reactively when problems come up. Open federation means that as soon as a single user here requests a community off of an instance X, that instance will show up in this instance’s federation list; unless that instance is later specifically blocked.
But wow, those are some pretty crappy people over there.
Interestingly, it says there are 19 comments but I can only see 10 (will be 11 after I send this). I logged out (thinking it was just defederated users or something) and still only saw the same ones. Is there another mechanic that I am missing?
Sometimes comments take a little while to federate! Could be why you’d see discrepancies.