Hey, so I’m on a different instance, and I hope it’s not out of place for me to post here. I really like Mbin for its design and features, and I made this account specifically for interacting with LGBTQ+ posts.

Anyway, there are a few things I’d like to discuss, if that’s okay.

First, I’d like to know if it’s necessary for me to report posts if they’ve already been reported on Blahaj. Like, is it just a federation delay that causes the bad posts to still be visible for a while, or is my reporting necessary to get them removed?

I’ve noticed that the recent troll posts are coming from lemmy.today and eviltoast.org, and I’m wondering if these instances should maybe be considered for de-federation from Blahaj. It seems like one or two users are ban-evading by making new accounts on these two instances. Are there any legit users that would be affected by this de-federation?

Also, I wonder if I made a mistake by boosting a few threads recently. Like did I accidentally get the attention of these transphobes? Should I refrain from boosting?

Again, I hope it’s okay for me to post this here.

  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    You’re not using an account on Blahaj so not much of what you’re asking matters as you’re not affected. Your reports would go to your admin and whoever’s instance the posts are on.

    Some reason you may still be able to see posts could be due to you using mbin. Not sure if mod reports and removals have been fixed to federate correctly honestly.

    • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      not much of what you’re asking matters as you’re not affected.

      I don’t understand. This account of mine is only used to interact with LGBTQ+ communities, mostly on Blahaj. Browsing Blahaj communities on Mbin, I do not see anything from instances Blahaj has de-federated. Isn’t that how de-federation works?

      • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        No, they only apply if you are using an account on that instance. So only whoever fedia.io chooses not to federate with as that’s what you are using.

        • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
          1·
          8 months ago

          Oh, okay. I thought that de-federated instances couldn’t interact at all, but I guess one-way interactions are still possible. Interesting. Thanks for the info.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    8 months ago

    I have no vote in who de-feds on your instance. But if trasnphobic content seems to be coming solely from those two domains, neither of which I’ve encountered before, that certainly seems like something worth investigating. Have you gone on those instances to find out if they have actual communities vs being stood up for just one or a handful of trolls? I think if they have communities of people then the better move would be to ask their moderators / admins to do something about it. If they appear to be troll farms, fuck 'em.

    • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
      5·
      8 months ago

      The eviltoast.org instance doesn’t seem to have much local content, and a recent post asks:

      Why has Lemmy.ml and feddit.UK defederated from eviltoast

      My instance seems to have de-federated from it already as well.

      The lemmy.today instance has more local content and engagement, but I can’t seem to interact with its communities from my Mbin account. So I can’t contact their admins and report issues.

      Maybe the mod from Blahaj that removed their content can report the problem to their instance?

    • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
      6·
      8 months ago

      I can’t seem to interact with any communities from that instance, so I can’t report anything to their admins.

        • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
          21·
          8 months ago

          I don’t like Lemmy, since it requires javascript, and I definitely don’t want an account on a troll farm instance. I messaged my admin.

          • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            8 months ago

            Fair enough, I wasn’t really suggesting it as long term ownership, more throwaway that could be deleted afterwards but I guess it makes sense if you’re not using javascript that that can’t possibly work.

      • e-five@kbin.run
        3·
        8 months ago

        If you can give me any more details, let me know. Looking at your instance, I only see two communities from lemmy.today, and one looks like it was deleted, so should only be their announcements one. Is the one you’re having trouble interacting with the potentially deleted one?

        Or do you mean users rather than communities? If you’re trying to report threads or comments, are they potentially already removed from blahaj and then it won’t let you interact with them?

        To sum up some things about cross instance interaction as of this date:

        • reports do propagate to lemmy
        • moderator actions do not propagate back
        • direct messages don’t work cross instance
        • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          I browsed the communities on their instance using mlmym so I could see the full list. Then I tried to access the lemmytoday community from my Mbin account, and I got a 404 error.

          So that’s what I meant when I said I can’t report things to the admins on lemmy.today, since I can’t post on their dedicated community.

          I’ve noticed recently that my instance can’t fetch new communities anymore. For instance, I fetched all of the good LGBTQ+ accounts months ago without an account, and they all eventually federated across. But I can’t fetch asktransgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone or any other communities that aren’t already federated. I was thankfully able to fetch trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone before this issue.

          On another note, if moderator actions don’t federate across instances, does that mean when I see this:

          [Thread, post or comment was deleted by the moderator]

          the comment was deleted by a moderator on my Mbin instance, rather than a moderator on Blahaj? In that case, I would think my reports are working.

  • VeganTomato
    3·
    8 months ago

    Whining and complaining, as expected, you should block and ignore people you don’t like, instead of up and calling for full instance defederation SMH

    • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      91·
      8 months ago

      You dumb fuck, you’re one of the transphobic trolls this post is bringing up, don’t bring that “defederation over opinions” talking point up in here, We all know you’re just scared they’ll defederate your spam hole, I hope they do for all our sake.

  • -Emma-@fedia.ioOP
    52·
    8 months ago

    Okay, so here is a running list of the recent transphobic trolls from lemmy.today

    • @DiscordMod1990yyyyx@lemmy.today
    • @TiredOfWokeMods@lemmy.today
    • @Hshsjsjsjjsnsnshs555@lemmy.today
    • @VeganTomato@lemmy.today
    • @Vegan2mato@lemmy.today

    There is definitely a problem of transphobic trolls coming from that instance.