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Anthchirp
mastodon-defederate
Python2022–2023
Anthchirp / mastodon-defederate

mastodon-defederate

Aiding small Mastodon instance admins by tracking larger instances' server blocklists

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
133GitHub stars
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What it is

Aiding small Mastodon instance admins by tracking larger instances' server blocklists

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-12-22 04:54:43 UTC to 2023-03-20 06:03:57 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 192022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 302023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 192022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 262022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 232023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 302023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 62023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 272023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 62023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> Which would that be? Probably those sites that "zero toxicity" people declared toxic and mandated to exclude from the fediverse where everyone is welcome. I remember this discussion a while ago and it was one of the main reasons I lost my interest in Mastoson (second being I see no reason to try to fit my thoughts into the format of one yell - I prefer more deliberate discourse) - it felt like they are too much concerned with exclusion rather than inclusion. There are tools to ensure you don't fail to block something that all right thinking people are blocking: https://github.com/Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate
In Mastodon hit 10M users
>This is the dumbest assessment of the fediverse I've seen in a month full of dumb assessments of the fediverse. >Just a really, really dumb assessment. Your argument boils down to "run your own instance", which has specifically been addressed in the article. Perhaps instead of repeating the word "dumb", you could read it. Regarding "run your own instance": sure, just like we all are running are email servers, right? Shouldn't be that hard to set up, right? Not like there would be any issues with getting on one of the many blacklists[1] maintained by God knows who that you'd have no practical means to get removed from, right? Right. [1] https://github.com/Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate
In Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules

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