cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/113726

I couldn’t find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.

This is a little site I built: the Defederation Investigator defed.xyz. With it, you can get a comprehensive view of which instances have blocked yours, as well as which ones you are federated with.

The tool is open source and available on GitHub. Hopefully someone will find it useful, enjoy.

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    1 year ago

    Looks like the usage may have gone over Vercel’s usage policy (I’m not super familiar with Vercel)? I see the following when trying to bring it up:

    402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED 
    Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED
    
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    1 year ago

    That’s very useful, thank you @[email protected]

    Just to note if copying the URL you have to strip off the https:// or else it won’t work (maybe people just don’t copy that these days, but I ran in to that problem anyway).

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      how many instances that instance is blocking "and* how many other instances are blocking that instance

      how’s that helpful if you don’t know which ones

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      1 year ago

      Very cool, ive been wondering about who defeds the most and now I know. Thanks.

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        they are are extremely obnoxious mix of tankies and some other leftists who might have been slightly less obnoxious if they were on their own, but being in the group with said tankies, you don’t want them any more than the former

        i apologize for grammar structure of my sentence and hope it makes some sense

        if you have few days of time to kill you can check this thread where lemm.ee admin is asking lemm.ee users about their opinion on defederating them. they brigade the thread in such a way they make more than 77% of the 2k comments in the thread (not exaggerating - the thread has 1920 comments when viewed from lemm.ee and 425 when viewed from lemmy.world which blocks them) and explain their philosophy in the process. so you will understand stuff like “who absolutely needs to be murdered for the crime of having more money than you in order to make world more just place & other tankies’ wisdom”.

        you have to acknowledge that they did really good job of introducing themselves, though - i had no idea they even existed the day before that thread and i am firm proponent of “defederate. now.” today 😆

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        It’s made by kiwifarms though

        I didn’t know, thanks for letting me know. I frankly do not care though, in the exact same way that I do not care that Lemmy is made by tankies.

        The interesting bit would be how people with these extreme agencies abuse these tools or their users to further their goals.

        As I see it, both cases are questionable people providing useful tools free for me to use. Wether I use these tools or not, has what impact in regards to their agenda? I certainly would not like to be a pawn in their game, or support their cause without consent.

        If you think that’s what happens, please show me. That would be very interesting to know and might lead to me ceasing usage / recommendation.

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          As I see it, both cases are questionable people providing useful tools free for me to use.

          Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

          If you think that’s what happens, please show me. That would be very interesting to know and might lead to me ceasing usage / recommendation.

          I just see no reason to use a tool made by controversial people with awful intention if there’s a good alternative with no such controversies. But you can decide for yourself, I just wanted to inform.

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            Lemmy devs may have controversial political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

            Not just that, in all interactions with them, I’ve never found the devs to be anything but respectful.

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            KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

            I haven’t heard of them. What are they about?

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            Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

            Let’s go even further than that. Let’s say that the most annoying people around the whole Fediverse are Hexbear. On the worst days, all they do is to organize to spam specific threads, which is indeed annoying, but that’s the extent of it. KiwiFarms is responsible for harassing people until they commit suicide for the heinous crime of being weird. Anyone aware of this who wants to associate with them has no place in civilized society.

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            I’m not sure how the developer’s intention or leaning affects me. Or how my usage or non-usage affects their intention or leaning, or how they can act on it. Maybe my usage provides data for them to improve their tools? But since the tools themselves are agnostic, I’m not sure how that’s a bad thing either.

            if there’s a good alternative with no such controversies

            Strictly speaking about functionality, I saw no alternative which is on par to the .agency tool. It has more features, is faster, provides more information and causes less strain on network servers. At least that’s my quick impression.

            Anyways, thanks for the conversation!

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    What I’d really like to have is a tool that lists blocked communities. That information is not as public as defederated instances.

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    aaaand it’s down. worked this morning but now it fails with PAYMENT_REQUIRED

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    1 year ago

    Looks like the only people not federated with the midwest are super small instances that aren’t federated a big way with anyone.