Hi Folks!

This post will stay updated to note the federation policy of this instance.

As of June 11, 2023: This instance only maintains a block-list of other communities.

Communities will only be added to the blocklist if the community appears to primarily serve as a host to:

• Content that is NSFW/Porn
• Illegal, or at the very least, pushing the bounds of a legal grey area
• Primarily political content
• Bigotry/intentionally offensive content

Due to the limited capacity to moderate at this point, I believe this to be the policy that’s easiest to deal with. If users subscribe to content from these communities, the content ends up on this instance and will also have to be moderated to decide if it’s something I want to host. I want to be reasonable when deciding criteria for instances, so if an instance is blocked that shouldn’t be, I’m open to learning more.

Another thing: I believe this has the effect of also blocking those users from participating in discussion on this instance.

If tooling improves for Lemmy that allows blocking federating communities but also allows those community members to participate, I’ll look into enabling the necessary option(s).