In the interest of transparency, we’re announcing the implementation of defed list synchronization from Fediseer.

Fediseer is a community of fediverse instances that work together to crowdsource classification of both safe and harmful fediverse instances. This instance has just recently been “guaranteed”, which means a member of the Fediseer community has sponsored us to join them. You can see details of our Fediseer presence here.

This enables a couple of things.

• This instance’s admins can now guarantee, endorse, or censure other instances.
• We can implement block list synchronization with our endorsed instances.
• Block list synchronization can be filtered by tags.

Given this instance’s stance towards censorship, we’ve been hesitant to implement block list synchronization, as we don’t want to block an instance prematurely. However, given the recent influx of loli / pedo content creeping in, we feel it’s in the best interest of this instance to at least synchronize blocking by loli and pedo tags.

So going forward, we will sync block lists with our endorsed instances’ block lists filtered by loli and pedo tags. We’ll also include spam tags, since there’s been an influx of that, too.

As always, comments and questions welcome.