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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.

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Defederation means nothing new is sent or received between the defederated servers. Anything old remains.

Oh okay. Thanks. :)

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How can you see another community's modlog?

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can go to programming.dev/modlog

That seems to show every insurance's modlog, not just programming.dev

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Go to the instance (programming.dev) in your browser and at bottom of page it will say "modlog".

Theres also "instances" which is fun to look at and see which servers are federated and defederated from a given server

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

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.

That seems to be showing me the modlogs of all instances, not just programming.dev

[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

And if the issue isn't fixed, then they can be defederared again. None of this is permanent

Good job mods! Appreciate you protecting this community!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same on our instance. It's ridiculous

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

love to see cross-instance collaboration 🫡

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Have you tried talking to the admins first?

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 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 19 points 2 days ago

Defederation is not punishment, nor is it permanent. It is a reaction of self defense and can be reversed later.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago

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. :)

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago

dang

I'll miss the programmer memes but that's the smallest price to pay for community safety

Thanks, admins!

(thadmins)

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago

Pretty disappointing from p devs side

What the hell. Ty mods

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 days ago

Good decision. Thanks. <3

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 days ago

Thank you, and continued thanks for not stealing my username (yet)

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

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!

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 2 days ago

Based blahaj admins

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago