Please add a new section under “for Users” in https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/overview about the lemmy.ca sitewide blocked instances and reasons. Don’t need to list the reason for every single blocked instance but can call out the more noteworthy ones that had a discussion.
Why I’m asking for this is I was trying to subscribe to some communities from lemmit.online but was getting a terse and confusing error. It took a bit of digging to see it was intentionally blocked from lemmy.ca and the reason why.
Yes it does look like it was banned from some other instances. You can check the mod logs for various users: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=238006
I’m going to explore if we can re-federate, but hide all of the communities so that only subscribed users can see them. I see that the admins of lemmit are not going to add any more communities, so hiding all of them should be feasible. I haven’t brought this up with the other admins yet, and I don’t know if users will go for it, but that seems like a compromise that the community might support.
3 years ago the bot had a bug on lemmy.world which created some comment spam and then it was banned. The bot’s error message about “Something went terribly wrong” is funny given my username.
You don’t need to re-federate with lemmit.online just for me as the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. I’m just requesting improved documentation/visibility about blocked instances to reduce confusion for this and other instances that get blocked in the future.
Digging into lemmy’s handling of blocked instances has been an interesting “journey of discovery”. I have another low priority related request about blocked instances: https://lemmy.ca/post/69461640