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Discover who has defederated your Fediverse instance with the Defederation Investigator.

(barring instances with hidden blocklists)

Apart from setting up and running your own instance to defederate*, there is no way of making your feed filter out the subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse, whether or not it is welcome there. If somebody could set up an instance with this community’s values and filters in mind, I imagine that would be helpful to many of us. This instance could be adapted to defederate from other AI-spreading instances as well.

Fediseer, the default web tool for instances to document issues and endorsements of other instances, which incidentally is maintained by the admin of db0, shows that lemmy.dbzer0.com has received no censures whatsoever from other instances.

*or instead manually blocking every user from dbzer0, which would be futile as they continue to gain users

[EDIT: Since many people seem confused, here is how blocking an instance works:

Given that instances X, Y, and Z are all federated with each other:

If I am hosted on instance X and I block instance Y but don’t block instance Z, users from instance Y can still post/comment onto communities hosted on instance Z and I will still see these posts/comments.

Only by defederating from instance Y would the content made by instance Y users that is posted onto any instance become wholly filtered out for users on instance X.]

  • Shifty Eyes@leminal.spaceEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    Go into your settings, you can block whatever user, community, or instance you feel like blocking. You should have the option so you don’t need to block individual users.

    Defederating the entire instance seems excessive for this use case.

    • spunow@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
      14·
      2 days ago

      Copied from other comments of mine:

      It seems as though you misunderstand how blocking instances and defederation work. If I am hosted on instance X and I block instance Y but don’t block instance Z, users from instance Y can still post onto communities hosted on instance Z and I will still see these posts. This is what I referred to when I said “subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse”. Defederating does require an instance, and only by defederating from instance Y would the content made by instance Y users that is posted onto any instance become wholly filtered out for users on instance X.

      I don’t want AI content on my feed. Pro-AI instance users continue to output AI-content non-locally. Blocking the pro-AI instance does not filter this content from my feed. Ergo, another means is necessary to filter the content of the users of this instance from my feed.