We’ve been seeing frequent spam waves of targeted harassment from accounts made on programming.dev over the course of several weeks, which has among other unacceptable things contained transphobia, obscene pictures of animals, calling for the victim to commit suicide, and other hateful rhetoric.
For these reasons we are defederating from programming.dev. We may refederate in the future if we have reason to believe there will be no further problems like these from their instance.
Edit: I've spoken with the admins there and I may refederate once I have more details on their application system. To be clear they don't support anything posted by these accounts and are deleting them as they are detected.
Edit: We've refedereted.
24 Comments
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org · 65 pts · 174d
Good job mods! Appreciate you protecting this community!
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 65 pts · 174d
Dang. I'd always used programming.dev as a verification instance to ensure my posts were migrating across the fed. It's a shame to lose them as a resource.
( ( looks at modlog... ) )
Well ok then. No regrets here.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 174d
How can you see another community's modlog?
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 174d
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 174d
That seems to be showing me the modlogs of all instances, not just programming.dev
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 174d
Thanks! I keep forgetting the bottom of a page will have content too, instead of it just scrolling forever. I've caught current-year-itis.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 4 pts · 173d
You can go to programming.dev/modlog
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 172d
That seems to show every insurance's modlog, not just programming.dev
gressen@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 174d
Have you tried talking to the admins first?
will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 105 pts · 174d
I do intend to send them a DM soon, but defederation happened first so we don't have to deal with the harassment accounts and so users don't have to be exposed to all the abuse.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 174d
AFAIK the only active admin (who is also the main admin account) was already instance banned from Blahaj for transphobia - so there wasn't an easy way to talk to the admin in the first place ... (at least not from an account on a Blahaj instance)
Mac@mander.xyz · 22 pts · 174d
Defederation is not punishment, nor is it permanent. It is a reaction of self defense and can be reversed later.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 174d
Same on our instance. It's ridiculous
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 173d
love to see cross-instance collaboration 🫡
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 174d
2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 174d
What the hell. Ty mods
germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 174d
Pretty disappointing from p devs side
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 174d
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 174d
dang
I'll miss the programmer memes but that's the smallest price to pay for community safety
Thanks, admins!
(thadmins)
randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 173d
Well done.
Please continue the good work you're doing to keep the community safe from these trolls until the admins on that server can find a way to keep them out.
Let us hope the solution is easy to implement on their end so they don't suffer unnecessary sleepless nights over it.
May we soon see them refederated. :)
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 174d
thanks for keeping us safe! also if sounds like respectful and constructive exchange with the admins of their instance which is also great to see!
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 174d
Thanks!
sureshot0@discuss.online · 4 pts · 173d
Hello, its none of my business, but I wouldn't refederate just because the admins seem cool. They might be 'disavowing' rather than giving an actual apology.
Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 172d
And if the issue isn't fixed, then they can be defederared again. None of this is permanent
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 172d
If we've defederated with them, then how come I can still see posts at lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/opensource@programming.dev?
will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 172d
Defederation means nothing new is sent or received between the defederated servers. Anything old remains.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 171d
Oh okay. Thanks. :)