We’ve been seeing frequent spam waves of targeted harassment from accounts made on programming.dev over the course of several weeks, which has among other unacceptable things contained transphobia, obscene pictures of animals, calling for the victim to commit suicide, and other hateful rhetoric.

For these reasons we are defederating from programming.dev. We may refederate in the future if we have reason to believe there will be no further problems like these from their instance.

Edit: I've spoken with the admins there and I may refederate once I have more details on their application system. To be clear they don't support anything posted by these accounts and are deleting them as they are detected.

Edit: We've refedereted.

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[–] 66 points 4 months ago

Good job mods! Appreciate you protecting this community!

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  • [–] 65 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Dang. I'd always used programming.dev as a verification instance to ensure my posts were migrating across the fed. It's a shame to lose them as a resource.

    ( ( looks at modlog... ) )

    Well ok then. No regrets here.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How can you see another community's modlog?

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Have you tried talking to the admins first?

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    AFAIK the only active admin (who is also the main admin account) was already instance banned from Blahaj for transphobia - so there wasn't an easy way to talk to the admin in the first place ... (at least not from an account on a Blahaj instance)

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Same on our instance. It's ridiculous

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    [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    What the hell. Ty mods

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Pretty disappointing from p devs side

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    dang

    I'll miss the programmer memes but that's the smallest price to pay for community safety

    Thanks, admins!

    (thadmins)

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Based blahaj admins

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Well done.

    Please continue the good work you're doing to keep the community safe from these trolls until the admins on that server can find a way to keep them out.

    Let us hope the solution is easy to implement on their end so they don't suffer unnecessary sleepless nights over it.

    May we soon see them refederated. :)

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    thanks for keeping us safe! also if sounds like respectful and constructive exchange with the admins of their instance which is also great to see!

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Hello, its none of my business, but I wouldn't refederate just because the admins seem cool. They might be 'disavowing' rather than giving an actual apology.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    If we've defederated with them, then how come I can still see posts at lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/opensource@programming.dev?

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