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.

  • neuracnuEnglish
    63·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • Jorunn (she/her)OPMAEnglish
      105·
      18 days ago

      I do intend to send them a DM soon, but defederation happened first so we don’t have to deal with the harassment accounts and so users don’t have to be exposed to all the abuse.

    • dandelion (she/her)English
      46·
      18 days 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)

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      21·
      17 days ago

      Defederation is not punishment, nor is it permanent. It is a reaction of self defense and can be reversed later.

  • MakiEnglish
    11·
    17 days 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. :)

  • not_IOEnglish
    10·
    17 days 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!

  • sureshot0@discuss.online
    4·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • SophienomenalEnglish
      10·
      16 days ago

      And if the issue isn’t fixed, then they can be defederared again. None of this is permanent