Both host content that are against our content policy and have had issues with users from those sites entering our community crossposting content that violates our content policy. We are discussing defederating other instances as well. There is discussion of lemmit.online being defederated because it pretty much exclusively scrapes reddit content and reposts it, and some content creators have expressed discomfort. If there's other instances that might be worth considering defederating from, just post and it'll be added to the current discussion.
and before anyone brings it up, lemmygrad defederated with us.
This isn't a dictatorship but I ask that you please behave in the comment section and at least try to understand why we are defederating.
Question: If moderations tools improve and allow, say, communities from certain instances to [edit: NOT] show up on "All"/"Communities", will it be possible to re-federate instances that allow some communities that are against the content policy?
Most (but not all) of the banned content on here is straight up illegal so it's not such a huge deal ATM, but (for example, as this is the most obvious "not-illegal-but-still-banned" content I can think of) anyone into CNC can't subscribe to it here (fair) but also can't subscribe to an external CNC community either. This may become a bigger problem as the Content Policy expands (as an extreme example, I've seen people call for the ban of ALL non-original content, which would be great for ethics but would basically require disabling federation altogether).
EDIT: oof, even hentai cnc is banned. I've expanded further down the thread, but from a user's perspective this really sucks because a lot of stuff that is well in the clear on reddit (sissy*, incest*, *dom, etc.) is potentially banned if we're going to have a fictional consent police. While I understand the admins' concerns, from a user perspective the current policy is already much harsher than any website I've ever been on that allowed porn.
Also is it even practical/sustainable to police things like fictional consent? Reddit doesn't not do it because they like it, they don't do it because it's unenforceable. Their rules are made to be unambiguous and easily applied: don't post underage stuff (duh), no revenge porn, no deepfakes, no illegal stuff. By saying "no noncon", this opens up so many edge cases that I don't think that they can be ruled on fairly. Is incest noncon? Is hypno porn? What about femdom? Bondage? That one scene from Blade Runner 1982?
This is off topic to your point but lets say, hypothetically, my friend was interested in a CNC-allowed instance, would you have any recommendations?
How do I connect to it?
You'll need to go to https://burggit.moe/ and create an account there. Being defederated from this instance means you can't access it from this account.