It looks like they have some kind of whitelist set up, limiting federation to the big instances, which seems like a strange thing for one of the small instances to do.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    19 hours ago

    Preemptive defederation, along the same lines as, “You can’t fire me, I quit!”?

    I’m just trying to wrap my head around it. I’m was asking because another of their communities is coming up for posting in my community tool. Thanks for the link.

    We’re not federated because it’s just too much drama and not enough reward. There are too many instances, many of them inactive, lots of people uploading sketchy shit which federates across, it’s impossible to keep tabs on everything and lots of resources go into hosting that bloat which nobody here would care about. Fediverse politics are also cancer and every shitty admin thinks they’re important somehow.

    I’m not opposed to federating selectively, with your instance for example. I mostly care about knowing that you actively admin it and I don’t have to worry about dodgy content making its way across here - if that’s the case and you’re keen, let me know.

    My God.

    Since they’ve decided I’m a shitty admin, I’ve instructed the community posting tool to skip over their stuff, and I consider the matter closed. I wish them luck.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s nice when the uh, um, jerks? self-segregate. Saves so much time having to filter them out.

      (Also it was kinda obvious they were twats when their admin team was spamming new community communities with endless stupid groups.)