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, 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.
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?
It’s complex. If an admin does an instance ban and removes comments, then the removals don’t federate. If a mod removes the post, or if an admin manually removes a post, post by post, the removal federates. We have a bot that works around that problem though, by manually removing posts one by one, so the most helpful thing you can do is make a post saying “Troll account, please remove all posts” or something like that, rather than reporting every post.
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?
Nope, it was nothing to do with you. This is just some kid that got banned from a conservative community on one instance, so he created his own on another instance. That community got banned because he was transphobic, and so, he’s having a tantrum, and doing more transphobia.
Again, I hope it’s okay for me to post this here.
More than ok. And I apologise, I sent you a DM about reporting posts, without realising you’d made this post here!
And, notably, we have now defederated from lemmy.today.
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.
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.
They do not yet:
To clarify, Mbin reports do make it to lemmy as of this PR, but lemmy moderator actions taken, such as removing comments, does not then make it back to Mbin. Not exactly the most clear situation to be in right now, but it’s been iterative process to get all the systems correctly hooked up to the fediverse.
My post didn’t make it to blahaj or fedia 🤔 that’s not good… the other one after did, though
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?
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.
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.
The eviltoast instance doesn’t seem to have much local content, and a recent post asks:
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?
Lemmy.today has rules against transphobia. Maybe report?
I can’t seem to interact with any communities from that instance, so I can’t report anything to their admins.
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
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.
You could try making an account there and DM the admin directly, I think they have open signups, part of the reason they’re such a spam infested hellhole.
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.
