• stinky@redlemmy.com
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      I think these are the result of a brigade attempt but I don’t know any of those people and can’t confirm.

      Having said that, the Fediseer’s purpose is to provide a chain of trust system for the Fediverse. Its mission is to help instance administrators fight spam, bots, and malicious domains by making it easier to manage whitelists of trusted instances instead of endlessly chasing spam through blocklists.

      My instance is small, has no bots, and no daily reports against users. I’d say these censures are arbitrary and personal in nature instead of violations of Fediseer’s purpose

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      Looking at it as an outsider and with no idea how the endorsement/censure system works, could that be five separate shitty messages from the instance admin; or is it one shitty message and four instances censuring in solidarity?

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        There are 3 types of reviews admins can bestow upon an instance: endorsement, hesitation or censure.

        All censures are from independent admins.

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          …but not necessarily based in meaningful or even true critique. The FAQ says “An censure is a completely subjective negative judgement from one instance to another. Effectively signifying that instance A “disapproves” of instance B. The reason for this can be anything and do not have to be stated.”

          Frankly I’m not sure why you cited this as a reply to my original comment, in which I was sharing my instance name for visibility. What was your purpose here?

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        Hi, I’m the instance owner being censured on the Fediseer.

        The Fediseer is used to identify spam/bot instances.

        Instance owner drama is fun and juicy, but doesn’t qualify an instance as spam- or bot-related.

        The Fediseer is being misused here by someone that I argued with, probably in a Leftist community. They’re supposed to use it to protect users from spam, not to “downvote” people after a dispute. And to be clear, there are no bots, and no spam coming from my instance.

        Hopefully @Sunshine@piefed.ca can shed some light onto why she called this out, or what she hoped to accomplish by doing so