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Servers with "lower" entry requirements have been infested with bots. Those with "higher" entry requirements are breaking ties (defederation) with these "lower requirement" lemmy servers
Uh. That’s only part of the story. Bots can get through basically all verification. The defederation is more political than it is about spam bots.
In theory, you are absolutely correct. In practice, the currently active wave of bots are specifically targeting instances without captchas.
There are several instances which are only defederating spam bot instances at the moment.
No, there's many instances that defederate because of spam bots, or because other instances are filled with trolls, or yes politics, or just users tend to be slightly annoying on an instance.
I defederate for all of the above on my self-hosted instances.
I have the impression that a place like beehaw is defederating so much, that in the end they'll be on their own.
I don't need an e-mail to use reddit, it would be a pitty to need one on the alternative.
I don’t think they are defederating “so much”, however even if they did Beehaw’s primary focus is being it’s own community, I don’t think being on its own would bother them so much or the people who were there before the Reddit exodus.
I thought it was only a single instance (beehaw) defederating
Pretty much every instance have defederated from at least one other instance, especially towards instances that hosts illegal images, ones with lackluster moderations, instances that support views they consider dangerous, ones filled with spam bots, and yes, sometimes out of drama or politics.
It's more of a question of which instances they defederated from and why.
Your own instance has 49 instances defederated https://lemmy.world/instances
full list as of this posting
burggit.moe lemmy.k6qw.com poa.st bae.st baraag.net pawoo.net eientei.org pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz sneed.social eveningzoo.club posting.lolicon.rocks detroitriotcity.com mastinator.com activitypub-troll.cf rot.gives shitpost.cloud shitposter.club chudbuds.lol gearlandia.haus varishangout.net obo.sh glee.li lemmy.podycust.co.uk bbs.darkwitch.net lemmy.shwizard.chat retarded.dev cubing.social veenk.help lemmy.dekay.se granitestate.social databend.run lemmy.wiuf.net clatter.eu lemmy.juggler.jp oceanbreeze.earth lemmy.jtmn.dev www.jrz.city demotheque.com federated.fun feral.cafe fluf.club freak.university freeatlantis.com freespeech.group freespeechextremist.com freethinkers.lgbt freezepeach.xyz frennet.xyz gab.ai