FediBlock

What is this?

We are a small group of people aiming to build a comprehensive list of #FediBlock posts in order to provide it to – especially new – instance admins. The intention is to provide safe spaces in the Fediverse.

The idea of this project is to provide a list of bad actor instances in the Fediverse, in order to enable instance admins to keep their instances clean of those actors without having to go through endless and incomplete pages of #FediBlock posts.

Everyone can submit instances they suggest to block and provide receipts and reasoning. Instance admins can subscribe to updates and decide for themselves whether they want to block that instance or not. Those subscriptions can be limited to specific reasons (enables racism, “free speech champions”, homomisia, no moderation, etc) or for all block suggestions.

We recognize the work that others put into the #FediBlock hashtag. This is supposed to be an archive or extension.

What are the advantages over the #FediBlock hashtag?

A list of all instances at a glance. Great for pointing admins of new instances to.
You get all block recommendations, not just the ones that federate to your instance.
Every recommendation has at least one receipt attached.
Entries are editable (with a git pull-request).
Subscribe to the RSS feed to get all new recommendations or subscribe only to specific tags.

How is it decided what goes on the list and what doesn't?

Every entry needs the approval of at least 2 moderators.

Stuff that gets on the list

Discriminatory behaviour and content promoting or advocating the oppression of members of marginalised groups. These groups may be characterised by any of the following (though this list is naturally incomplete):

ethnicity
gender identity or expression
sexual identity or expression
physical characteristics or age
disability or illness
nationality, residency, citizen status
wealth or education
religious affiliation, agnosticism or atheism

Also:

threatening behaviour, stalking, and doxxing
harassment, including brigading, dogpiling, or any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do not wish to be contacted
mobbing, including name-calling, intentional misgendering or deadnaming
violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism and fascism."

Stuff that does not get on the list

“The admin is blocking my instance just because I used the n-word.”

Blocklist

Look at all block recommendations in one page.
Subscribe to all new recommendations via RSS, or

subscribe only to these tags:

API

/api/v1/list returns an array of objects with these properties:

Property (type)	Description
instance (string)	The hostname of the instance.
url (string)	The location of the full data set.

The full data set is an object with these properties:

Property (type)	Description
description (string)	The reasons the instance is listed. Can be long. Not sanitized.
instance (string)	The hostname of the instance. Can be more than one, separated by comma.
receipts (array of strings)	URLs to prove the claims made in the description and tags.
report_time (string)	Date and time of reporting, UTC. Format: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.
screenshots (array of strings)	The file names of the screenshots. Prepend `https://fediblock.org/blocklist/` and you have the URL.
tags (array of strings)	Tags to classify the problems with the instance.
unreachable (boolean)	`true` if instance is unreachable. This property may not exist.

Contact

Proposed entries are converted to Pull Requests on our data repository, where we discuss any issues with them. You can join the discussion there or reach out to us at @fediblock_archive@botsin.space.

Suggest instance

Please make sure to include receipts (hyperlinks and/or screenshots) for all claims you make. We don't want trust to be necessary to use this list.