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At least for your instance, or for looking one instance at a time, you can see which instances they federate and defederate with by scrolling to the bottom and clicking “instances”
Or go to the url of the form “<instance domain>/instances”
I saw that, but I thought beehaw still defederated from Lemmy world and shit just works… They have them listed as federated
I’ve seen this site suggested in posts like this:
spoiler
https://fba.ryona.agency
I’m using the spoiler tag because elsewhere I’ve seen this warning about the site:
I’m unfamiliar with “kiwifarms” but the site currently does has some offensive language at the bottom that’s associated with 4chan, so be warned.
That said, it appears to be the only site currently available to see which instances in the fediverse have blocked/defederated your instance. (The reverse of
<instance domain>/instances, which only shows which instances your instance has blocked/defederated.)They have a habit of doxing trans people for simply existing on the Internet. Also they’ve been responsible for several people being swatted. They were so awful that Cloudflare finally stopped having anything to do with them. Things have to be really bad for Cloudflare to nope out, it’s a short list also containing the Daily Stormer and 8chan.
I’m still trying to understand all this. I thought all instances “see” (federate) each other. If they can defederate (block) others from seeing an instance, isn’t that going to make discovery a problem? Wouldn’t that also mean I need to create a new account just to see that instance?
You need to be on a web browser, and at the instance you want to check. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and click instances. That example is from your home instance.