Generally, any instance under 200 users gets added if nominated. After an investigation shows that they have an active community and aren’t a hot-bed of reactionary takes.
sh.itjust.works is larger and after nominated we put it up for a hexbear community vote as they have two reactionary communities, meanwhileongrad and noncredibledefense. At the conlcusion of that vote it was in favor of not federating at this time. At some point in the future we will probably ask again.
we use an allow-list and the only communities we have blocked are exploding-heads and burggit.
Any instance that was on our allow-list that blocked us was removed.
In this post the decision to federate with blahaj was discussed: https://hexbear.net/post/352119 and while a formal vote was not called on it was clear that majority were not happy with the situation.
Generally, any instance under 200 users gets added if nominated. After an investigation shows that they have an active community and aren’t a hot-bed of reactionary takes.
sh.itjust.works is larger and after nominated we put it up for a hexbear community vote as they have two reactionary communities, meanwhileongrad and noncredibledefense. At the conlcusion of that vote it was in favor of not federating at this time. At some point in the future we will probably ask again.
I’m new from blahaj lemmy, wanted to ask is there usually any community discussion/voting prior to defederation?
we use an allow-list and the only communities we have blocked are exploding-heads and burggit.
Any instance that was on our allow-list that blocked us was removed.
In this post the decision to federate with blahaj was discussed: https://hexbear.net/post/352119 and while a formal vote was not called on it was clear that majority were not happy with the situation.
In addition there was an earlier post https://hexbear.net/post/277508 where federating at all was voted upon.
There is a post to nominate an instance for removal here: https://hexbear.net/post/277518
as well as one to nominate one to add: https://hexbear.net/post/277506