Hello Lemmyverse!
First of all we want to say THANK YOU to both @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @rikudou@lemmings.world for making this happen. The addition of tags, censures and hesitations following Rikudou's GUI being included to Fediseer offically has done a lot to bring this tool to the next level. As we said before, on Lemmy World we now implemented this tool in our flow on how to handle spam- or other types of abusive instances. The system also had his first test-run this week when there was a spam-wave of accounts from different instances and we were able to fend those off by temporarely adding the instances to our hesitations list. Once the admins of those instances were contacted and tightened up security a bit they were removed from our hesitation list and re-federated.
dbzer0.com was protected during that time because they followed Lemmy World's hesitations and therefor their communities also remained spam-free!
We're looking forward to see how this evolves, when more and more admins start using this tool - allowing us to protect eachother.
So lastly, we want would like to point the instance admins that are reading this to https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world
As you see we've spent quite a bit of time going over different blocklists from instances and combining them into the Lemmy World one. We're also going over the Fediverse-Blocklist and adding instances from there.
The worst offenders are already in the list, but we'll keep working on making our list as complete as possible. Due to the size of our instance we are often the first ones to be targeted. And on the other hand we also have a big admin team so we also quickly notice when something is going on. So we hope that making this information available through Fediseer will help keeping instances and their communities protected and turn a negative into something good.
Greetings, The Lemmy World team