• Speff@melly.0x-ia.moe
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      2 years ago

      …go on…? And…?

      And because this instance had open registration, it quickly became one of the biggest instances. Trolls were using the open registration + federation to harass their community. Because there are a lack of mod tools and the fact they only have 4 mods, they couldn’t keep up. In order to keep the community they wanted in tact, they decided to temporarily defederate until they’re better equipped to handle it.

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      2 years ago

      That’s kind of an oversimplification. The de-federated because they only have four mods and didn’t have the ability to effectively moderate all the users from large instances with no vetting process.

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        on top of that, they were getting some pretty heinous abuse from a couple of users on the open-registration instances