When having to admit their fault the moderator started looking for arbitrary reasons to ban me. Such as not using the exact terminology of the Amnesty report. Which does not call it genocide.
The moderator is also watching user votes, and calling out people not voting with him.
The question boils down to: do you consider a default defederation list to be an inevitable block, or do you consider it a preset that can be easily changed afterwards, and should as admins should review their defederation list when setting up an instance anyway?
At first people thought it could not be avoided, and were relieved to learn it could easily be changed: https://lemmy.zip/post/47192425/21066707
For the context, what the change experience looks like for an admin
For screenshots and more details: https://wetshav.ing/comment/92409
The weirdest part of this ‘one-way federation’ drama is that it’s entirely self-inflicted. Why even run an allowlist if you’re not going to vet the instances you put on it?
Every time I see Hexbear mention .world it’s to call them Nazis, why on earth did they put piefed.world in their allowlist?
I don’t know. Seems like now they removed them, hopefully the whole thing is now settled.
A default block was what I assumed that meant. By default it is blocked, but it possible to unblock.
The major issue is that putting them on the blacklist by default: the admins need to make a conscious decision to unblock them. Which they will probably not do unless they agree with their views or enjoy their posts.
This gives easy plausible deniability to who wants to blacklist hexbear or lemmygrad. The partiality is far stronger than on Lemmy. Where we know the devs have certain political views but they do not force them upon anyone.
List of Piefed instances that currently defederate hexbear:
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
As you can see, instances defederating hexbear are instances managed by teams which were going to do so anyway, as they already did on Lemmy. I’m still waiting for an example of an instance that defederated hexbear “by mistake”.
Setting up an instance isn’t trivial, assuming that admins would revise the defederation list doesn’t seem realistic.
There are still a few instances that federate with hexbear, showing that the ‘baked in block’ is just a configuration change: