It's better to have them forget about it and have the server and its communities locked than it is to have them left open to abuse in your absence. At least in the case of the locked one they can still use it on their communities on other instances (I see no reason to lock existing users, just registrations, community creation, and maybe posts and comments on hosted communities).
Having a team of admins is another good solution to this problem since if one disappears the others can still do the work while they are gone.
Yup it's a proxy to circumvent defederation, they're just posting shit there because at least when they started it was federated with many others. They'll probably just flee elsewhere but this is why it's very important to make sure you have people to manage the instance in case you aren't able to anymore.
make sure to block burggit.moe as well they're known for CSAM material, also lemmy.comfysnug.place for the same reasons.
A while back I signed up to rammy.site a small lemmy instance run by a single person. It was a very nice instance, very stable and had pretty good access to other instances, or at least it used to. Recently though all of that has changed when the instance was taken over by far right-wing users from the right-wing instance known as exploding-heads, an instance which has been blocked by many others for the hateful content they post and the abusive behavior of its members. The reason that this was even allowed to happen was that the admin stopped moderating the server but left the server online, this is a problem because it means that anyone can hop onto the server and start posting whatever they want and create whatever communities they want and no-one can stop them.
There isn't much you can do to prevent going innactive but there are ways to mitigate what happened on rammy.site to prevent a full blown catastrophe like what has happened here. If you run a server and you are going to be going away for a while I'd recommend turning off account registration and community creation on your instance, that wouldn't prevent federated users and existing users from spamming existing communities but it would help against users joining the site and creating new communities which is what happened here on rammy.
I understand that it's not always possible to always be there to moderate your instance but you can at lease take steps to ensure that in your absence the instance won't be utterly decimated and/or used as a weapon to spread hatred or attack other instances.
I don't know what's going on with it, I doubt it'll be around too much longer though, admin abandoned it and it's probably due to run out of hosting or domain any time now.
Ah I think I know what's going, try https://rammy.site and if that doesn't work try accessing it through Tor (or brave browser in a Tor connection incognito tab).
Site is up for me, hasn't gone down even once in the past few weeks.
I'll try to help as much as I can but I'm in the process of finding a new instance, preferably one that doesn't federate with rammy or exploding-heads because I know I'll get plenty of DM harassment otherwise if I don't due to my defederation campaign.
Trying to do it soon because rammy is unmoderated and I don't want to be here when anyone worse comes and starts going to war on the instance with any amount of unspeakably horrible abusive material, there are some really disgusting and illegal lemmy instances out there and rammy has none of them blocked.
Though there is hope in the future, since rammy is abandoned eventually its hosting or domain-registration (whichever comes first) will run out and when it does the site will go down and their fun will be over.
In the meantime I'll focus on spreading the word about rammy.site and making sure people know about this so they'll never leave their instances abandoned, at least not without turning off registration first.
It's not drastic considering the circumstances, the instance is unmoderated their admin isn't available, that's as good a reason as any to defederate them. The instance also doesn't have a blocklist, it doesn't block any instances it's also on outdated software and being unmoderated that is a recipe for disaster.
I just looked at the instance list and they're literally federated with burggit.moe so yeah I would definately describe this instance as a timebomb very much worth defederating, there actually aren't any instances blocked on here on rammy which seems nice until you realize just how many known awful ones there are that are connected and accessible to rammy.
This shouldn't even be something being debated, the instance is abandoned, people are posting hateful content, and it's federated to the worst of the worst instances on the fediverse.
This is why I'm encouraging people to defederate from rammy, assholes like this are going to use it as a point to post shit to the rest of the instances. If it's defederated they're no better off than they were on exploding-heads and it'll be harder for them to spread their hatred.
Hello I am writing this post to inform you that rammy.site has been taken over by far right-wing posters from exploding-heads. They have been posting extremely toxic transphobic content and climate denial and have also started posting onto other instances. They're using Rammy.site to spread their content from exploding-heads because it has been defederated by the bigger instances and are taking advantage of the fact that the admin isn't doing his duties to use it as a bridge to spread their hateful and abusive content to the rest of the fediverse. I know that some people think that I'm exagerrating or that I'm just making these posts because I "don't agree with what they're posting" but I'm not this is actually a very serious problem, go check the instance out for yourself if you don't believe me it has become just as bad if not worse than EH.
Also just to be clear this isn't a new idea, other instances have already Defederated rammy.site due to the current problems on the site:
- lemmy.world | defederation announcement
- sh.itjust.works | defederation announcement
- lemmy.dbzer0.com
- lemmy.blahaj.zone | defederation announcement
- pricefield.org | defederation announcement
I'm sure there are also plenty more that have as well or more that are going to.
Have not been defederated, they're not in the blocked section on the instances page.
Go look at what they're posting and then come back here.
Lemmy.world defederated EH a while back and now the same people from EH are posting wild on rammy.site, seems like a pretty cut and dry argument for defederation to me, if the admin were here and cleaning these posts and communities up that would be different but he's not and they're still here so best to treat is the same as EH because for all intents and purposes it is the same as EH.
Defederation is not censorship. It is refusing to listen to or platform things that you don't agree with i.e. bigots or nazis. Lemmy.world has defederated exploding heads so it stands to reason that they wouldn't want to listen to the same assholes spewing the same crap on rammy.site
Recently bigots from exploding heads have taken over the rammy.site instance and have started posting extremely transphobic content and also climate denial. They're using rammy.site because its admin is unavailable or not moderating and it is federated with other sites which allows for their hateful content to spread further.
I would strongly recommend defederating from Rammy.site as their admin is likely not going to step in and it's the only other way to stop the spread of this hateful material.
Recently it has come to my attention that the instance where my account is located rammy.site has been taken over by right wing bigots from the site exploding-heads they have created many hateful communities and have started posting transphobic content and climate denial. There's also quite a bit of community spam on here.
I very strongly advocate that the admins of this instance defederate from rammy.site as soon as humanly possible to stop the spread of their toxic shit to other instances.
Still seems like it's federated to me, I got your reply notification.
They'll just create more communities, have you seen the community spam on here lately? If they did that fighting against each other do you really think they wouldn't evade community bans on lemmy.world? Defederation is the only way unless the admin comes back and does a sweeping IP ban of everyone posting shit on here, followed by defederating exploding-heads. I don't foresee that happening though, admin has been MIA for over a month with no sign of returning and there's almost no activity here besides me and the assholes from EH.
Oh I'm not threatening you sweetie, I'm just saying that if you continue it's very likely the admins will ban you for being associated with these people, they may see you as a liability due to the fact that you're also a participant over on exploding-heads
Can't deny it, you said it yourself.
Also I'm not sharing anything that wasn't already public knowledge, Federated DMs on Lemmy aren't secure any instance admins can see them, meaning any one with a PC capable of running docker can view your federated DMs.
More like they're deliberately and intentionally trying to cause harm to people, they literally have a community dedicated to transphobia calling transgender people groomers.
It's one thing to disagree with someone, it's another to make disgusting accusations based on a person's orientation/identity. They're literally trying to say that all LGBT people are pedophiles because they disagree. How do you think that is okay?
Admins of Lemmy.ml please consider defederating from rammy.site it has been taken over by right wing malicious actors from exploding-heads.com and the admin is nowhere to be found.
It is imperative that you take action as soon as possible the users on rammy are using the site to spread their messages to a further audience, we must nip this in the bud. If you don't believe me check the instance for yourself, you'll see it dominated with bigoted right wing posts and spam communities.
Dear Admins of the Lemmy.world instance I am asking that you please consider defederating from the rammy.site instance as soon as possible as the admin is no where to be found and it has been taken over by right wing posters posting hateful messages. There are also other people posting large amounts of spam and creating empty communities. What was once a small hobby run general purpose instance has been turned over and made into a festering right wing hate filled breeding ground by the people from exploding-heads. The only recoarse left it seems is to defederate to prevent them from spreading hate to other instances.
PS. I already sent this message to multiple admins here, sorry about that I just felt it was urgent to make sure the message was sent before these people cause more damage.