After reviewing a report regarding the personal account of the admin of tenforward.social, and discussing with other fediverse admins, we're deciding to suspend the admin and limit tenforward.social until this blows over. I'll explain why on both, starting with the admin themselves.

Suspending packetcat@tenforward.social

Rule 1: Threats of Violence

packetcat made several posts[1][2] that were perceived as a threat of violence, metered by it being "theoretical". This is not acceptable behavior for any user, especially an instance administrator, irrespective of the intended target of their annoyance.

This comes across as extremely volatile and dangerous, and on any other platform (except the cesspool that is X / Twatter) would be immediately removed.

Rule 6: No Spam

packetcat appears to have been going on a run of posts using several hashtags excessively in ways we, and other instances, have previously actioned as abuse / spam.

In the first case, the #fediblock hasht

• Instance: pisskey.io
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Nazi imagery, affiliated with poa.st and other known abusive instances
• Fediseer Action: Censured

• Instance: the.asbestos.cafe
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Homophobia, harassment, trolling, admin involved abuse
• Fediseer Action: Censured

Block has been applied to the entire domain.

• Instance: lab.nyanide.com
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, harassment, homophobia, nazi imagery, admin / mod engaged abuse
• Fediseer Action: Censured

Block has been applied to the entire domain.

• Instance: mugicha.club
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Racism, homophobia, harassment, trolling, no moderation, associated with poa.st
• Fediseer Action: Censured

• Instance: cunnyborea.space
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, abusive admin, nazi imagery
• Fediseer Action: Censured

• Instance: bv.umbrellix.org
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Toxicity, abusive admin, death threats, emotional abuse
• Fediseer Action: Censured

Admin Note: This block applies to the root domain (umbrellix.org) and all associated sub-domains.

• Instance: liberdon.com
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Harassment, trolling, misinformation, sexism, homophobia
• Fediseer Action: Censured

• Instance: asimon.org
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Racism, homophobia, transphobia, trolling, abusive admin
• Fediseer Action: Censured

• Instance: eveningzoo.club
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, racism, harassment, no moderation policy

• Instance: shitpost.cloud
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, racism, harassment, no moderation policy

• Instance: hexbear.net
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance, harassment and abuse towards instances defederating them.

• Instance: justbros.xyz
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: unmoderated, troll, epileptic imagery

• Instance: clew.lol
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: troll, homophobia, no moderation, spinoff of poa.st

• Instance: burggit.moe
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: CSAM / Loli / Rule 1

• Instance: federated.fun
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, transphobia, hate speech, unmoderated / single-user instance

• Instance: ligma.pro
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, harassment, gaslighting admin

• Instance: lemmygrad.ml
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
• Reason: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance

• Instance: seal.cafe
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, no moderation policy

After reviewing a recent post by the administrator of sh.itjust.works and comments from the community, we've decided to revoke the defederation action.

We're hoping that proactive moderation strategies and development to Lemmy's moderation tools help us avoid the need to defederate from instances like sh.itjust.works in the future.

Original defederation info:

• Instance: sh.itjust.works
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
• Reason: We defederated from sh.itjust.works due repeated abuse from users and the open-registration policy permitting this.