Aren’t all blocked instances listed in the “Instances” button at the bottom of every Lemmy page? You won’t get a detailed explanation, but you can see what you can’t see at least.
tbh this is a general issue with the fediverse. Some instances aren’t transparent about who is being blocked and why. It made it a whole lot more difficult for me to figure out what instance I should go for.
ech@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
Yeah the detailed explanation would be very helpful. It’s nice that Lemmy has the page at least (and I learned something new today), though that is just Lemmy and the fediverse is much bigger than that. I believe Misskey and Pleroma share it similarly to Lemmy, while Mastodon allows admins to hide it from the public (which, as I said, will act as a barrier to those wanting to sign up)
degen@midwest.social 6 months ago
It doesn’t help with the reasoning, but defed.xyz has been a lot easier to use than scrolling through the /instances endpoints
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 months ago
PSA: you can use defed.xyz to check which instances have blocked an instance (only works with Lemmy ones).
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
Yeah there’s a similar tool for the wider microblogging part of fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.) but because it was made by an edgelord it gets dismissed. I get the vibe some instances just don’t want to share that information, which is important when you’re basically dealing with web infrastructure, and get mad when you seek that information out.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 months ago
Oh yeah, big time.
When I posted it to the lemmy admin chatroom, some admins who shall remain nameless commented saying it “gave bad vibes” and that wanting to know such information felt “toxic and gross”. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, of course, but considering the data is already available under the /instances page… well it’s just weird that anyone would have a problem with wanting to make it more accessible.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That doesn’t woke at all for me. Search button does nothing.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 months ago
Sometimes it happens, yeah. Takes a while or multiple clicks to load. I built that site as a one afternoon project, it’s far from perfect.
Another thing you can do is going straight from the URL. For your instance that would be defed.xyz/check/lemmy.ca