(De-)federation on our Chatsubo

Federation can get quite qickly quite philosophical, especially on the question when/what/how/why to block.

On our Hubzilla-Instance ‘Chatsubo’ there are many defederated hosts and a few blocked users.

when/what

We defederate whole hosts when most of their posts we get to see contain obvious rascism, antisemitism, alternative facts…

how

We simply defederate through the admin-interface of Hubzilla.

why

Why? Is the most interesting and philosophical question on the issue.

• Tech: as we host Chatsubo on a small line, we need to cut traffic. Most (outgoing) junk traffic is already blocked on DNS level, federated traffic is denounced on the level of federation protocols. We could simply block it via DNS, but we want to inform those hosts about the blocks.
• Phil: We share the same world, and as in the ‘real world’, we won’t talk to and with everyone. We don’t speak with the police, we don’t speak with the regular fascists next door, and last but not least we don’t talk with a lot of other people because of various reasons. We simply implement this intuitive behaviour into our technological lives, too.

blocked users

Believe it or not, there are users who create new, federated account(s) every day(!), just to nag and stalk and piss of others. looking at you, zlax! It’s a bit of federated common work to track these accounts, and on some servers (on Chatsubo, too) he is simply deleted on database-level.

Yours, chibatsu.net <people@chibatsu.net>.