Defederation Investigator for Lemmy
defed.xyz
Discover who has defederated your Lemmy instance with the Defederation Investigator.

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.

  • kitonthenet
    62•3 months ago

    You should probably cache results so users aren’tspamming other instances

  • notceps [he/him]English
    34•3 months ago

    Since I was using this to write a little defederation thing on which instances find hexbear so repulsive they had to defederate I noticed the number from exploding-heads go up quite a bit from the 75 to 170 now. I will make it a point to call out two specific instances for being hilariously disgusting feddit.de aka the german federation, and feddit.dk both defederated hexbear but didn’t defed the outright nazi instance exploding-heads earlier today, class act from the german and danish mod team.

    Also apparently they were aware of it two months ago but didn’t chose to act until today which yeah class act from the german admins. https://feddit.de/post/1151473?scrollToComments=true

        • notceps [he/him]English
          18•3 months ago

          Yeah a lot of germans are full on i-voted which is incredibly bleak because the SPD is full on let’s cut the education budget in half in fact we need to do so much austerity, Linke is well Linke. So yeah, I hate german libs a lot but I feel so sorry for my german comrades.

            • notceps [he/him]English
              8•3 months ago

              I don’t know if I want to harp on them too much, die Linke is pretty much only a thing in eastern germany. The west germany has basically suppressed them heavily, first by what some historians would call a ‘colonization’ of east germany due to just how fucking bad reunification was for eastern germany, as well as deliberate neglect by western germany letting the situation spiral out of control. A lot of Die Linke politicians were also illegally surveilled and harassed and were often smeared as red fash using horseshoe theory stuff.

              This leads us to now where they just suck like they are to the left similar to how AOC is to the left of Biden unable/unwilling to do anything so they’ll keep losing ground to the AfD they’ll not get anywhere.

              • barrbaric [he/him]English
                3•3 months ago

                sadness I knew they were supposedly the successor party to the ruling party of the GDR so of course they were beaten down and became moderates.

            • AcidSmiley [she/her]English
              6•3 months ago

              They’ve slowly bled voters because they spent the last couple years with infighting and are now about to split into a pro-imperialist ineffectual radlib wing and a transphobic social reactionary wing, which may lead to both new parties being too weak to make it into parliament any longer yea

        • Hastur
          0•3 months ago

          You mean vigilante-style attacks on healthband life because you oppose their world view? You Germans have come full circle.

      • iie [he/him]English
        -2•3 months ago

        …but whatever fits your narrative, I guess

        obviously a mistake?

        • @barsoap@lemm.ee
          3•3 months ago

          Not checking easily verifiable information when going on a “muh they block tankies but not nazis” rant, essentially accusing the instance itself of being a Nazi cesspit, doubly sus when doing it to a German instance, is quite a mistake, yes.

          Also: Just checked, feddit.dk also blocks exploding heads. Both at least since 2023-06-15 (as per fba.ryona.agency). So two out of two wrong, nice, “but didn’t defed […] exploding-heads earlier today” wrong, nice, that’s framed as if he just checked “earlier today”, and a fellow hexbear giving moral support to spreading malicious gossip instead of calling it out. And then you folks ask why people don’t like you.

          • iie [he/him]English
            1•3 months ago

            and then folks ask why people don’t like you

            I know why you specifically don’t like us lol. I recognize your username from the constant long arguments with hexbear users I see you get into.

    • @detox@infosec.pub
      1•3 months ago

      I will make it a point to call out two specific instances for being hilariously disgusting feddit.de aka the german federation, and feddit.dk both defederated hexbear but didn’t defed the outright nazi instance exploding-heads earlier today, class act from the german and danish mod team.

      You make a point that you have no idea what you are talking about but spread missinformation.

      Also apparently they were aware of it two months ago but didn’t chose to act until today which yeah class act from the german admins. https://feddit.de/post/1151473?scrollToComments=true

      The post you are referring to was a federated cross-post, besides that archive.org from 2 month ago proves you are wrong:

      https://web.archive.org/web/20230612194607/https://feddit.de/instances

  • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
    28•3 months 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
  • @Mane25@feddit.ukEnglish
    26•3 months ago

    That’s very useful, thank you @Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com

    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).

    • @stebo02@sopuli.xyz
      21•3 months ago

      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

    • krolden
      4•3 months ago

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

      • barrbaric [he/him]English
        19•3 months ago

        For what it’s worth hexbear wouldn’t have federated with them anyway because the site is staunchly against hosting NSFW content.

      • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
        17•3 months ago

        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 😆

        • Rom [he/him]English
          18•3 months ago

          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 😆

          Is that why you haven’t stopped whining about us ever since

          • @RobotToaster@infosec.pub
            1•3 months ago

            Someone who claims to be a socialist, but who has a pathological obsession with identity politics and dividing the working class, and gives little regard to class consciousness or worker solidarity. Usually has an extreme hatred of patriotism despite patriotic socialism being the official ideology of the Soviet Union. Often defends lumpen behaviour to a bizarre extent.

            Did I miss anything?

            • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]English
              1•3 months ago

              Wait, you think hexbear “gives little regard to class consciousness or worker solidarity”? You think we’re only claiming to be socialist? You think we have a “pathological obsession with identity politics”? I would disagree about all of the above, honestly. I will grant you that I’m not a big fan of patriotism, because I live in the imperial core, and there is nothing good about america. Also, could you give me an example of what “lumpen behavior” you think we’re defending?

              I just realized, I have no desire to get in Yet Another Internet Argument. Please do not answer the above questions unless you really, really want to for some reason. Thanks for explaining your thinking, I very much disagree with you, but that’s ok! This is a 2 day old thread at this point and I’m trying to be less of an argumentative butthole online, so I’ll just say, I hope you have a great day!

    • Grownbravy [they/them]English
      9•3 months ago

      there are a lot of <250 user instances on that list.

      They would probably never see their local content again

    • Nerd02English
      10•3 months ago

      Oh I forgot about this community. Thank you for spreading the word.

      • @BlazeOP
        7•3 months ago

        You are welcome, thank you for your work!

    • Lucia [she/her]English
      12•3 months ago

      Just linking a similar tool because I haven’t seen it being mentioned yet: https://fba.ryona.agency/

      It’s made by kiwifarms though, they even included their favorite word at the end of the page.

      • SpziEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        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.

        • Lucia [she/her]English
          12•3 months ago

          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.

          • @pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6•3 months ago

            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.

            • poVoq
              2•3 months ago

              Well, that is partially because they leave the less respectful interactions to their alt-accounts ;)

              But yes, the software is written with good intentions.

          • @can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2•3 months ago

            KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

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

          • @SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            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.

          • SpziEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            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!

  • @ram@feddit.nl
    10•3 months ago

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

  • voxel
    8•3 months ago

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

    • @BlazeOP
      2•3 months ago

      You can ask the creator (see the original post that I crossposted)

      • @iso@lemy.lol
        3•3 months ago

        They don’t have any contact info, I guess I should PM from another instance.

        Its really strange since there is no porn, controversial opinions or else on the instance.