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.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine you’ve got 100,000 people in a room. Let’s say they’re split between people wearing blue shirts, green shirts, and red shirts. But it’s not an even split. Half of the people in the room are wearing red shirts. Someone in a blue shirt steps up onto the stage and says, “Open discussion everyone: I think red shirts are assholes and we should kick them all out of the room.”

    What exactly do you expect to happen next?

    Those instances need a space to discuss those goals among themselves, where the admins can communicate with the users, etc.

    That’s not what the thread in question was. We were invited to join the discussion. If we had not been welcome to join the discussion, we would have stayed out of it.

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      Regarding the analogy:

      1. it’s not one but multiple connected rooms

      2. the room with people in red shirts has suddenly decided to connect with the rooms with the less numerous blue and green shirts

      3. it’s not “someone” in a blue shirt, it’s a significant number of people in blue shirts who think the red ones should simply return to their own room that they were perfectly happy with until now

      We were invited to join the discussion

      https://lemm.ee/post/4543536

      Where exactly do you see the invitation? I see “I am very interested to hear thoughts and responses from our own users.”

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        the room with people in red shirts has suddenly decided to connect with the rooms with the less numerous blue and green shirts
        think the red ones should simply return to their own room that they were perfectly happy with until now

        go back to reddit. this is the fediverse, the entire point is that these are not, in fact, “separate” rooms. being connected is the default. that’s why it requires a giant discussion to kick anyone out.

        Where exactly do you see the invitation?

        It was posted publicly to all federated communities and absolutely no indication was made that the majority of people to whom the post was sent were unwelcome to participate.

        On Hexbear, we have a rule that we have to leave meta discussions of other instances alone if they want us to. All the admin had to say was, “lem.ee users only” and we would’ve stayed out. If you refuse to take such a simple measure to restrict discussion to your own community, you do not actually want to restrict discussion to your own community.

        And the admin didn’t. You can go ask him. He was not trying to keep hexbear users out or in any way offended by the fact that we participated in the discussion. Why are you (a member of neither instance) offended on his behalf?