Here's the post in question without having to directly go to truthsocial:

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/41006

I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL! The great Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

upvoted for referencing Cory Doctorow's enshittification.

Thanks for your detailed post.

I’ve bookmarked many of the links to various tools you mentioned and will put them on my todo list to look into.

My pleasure.

I looked into fediseer and am happy to see it also offers a documented REST API. I compared the blocked and censured list for sh.itjust.works and created this post requesting SJW to to review their mismatches: https://lemmy.ca/post/69562789

FYI - here's current counts of blocked instances and reported censure to fediseer for the top 10 lemmy servers:

                Blocked  Censured
lemmy.blahaj.zone   312       228
lemmy.ca             91         2
lemmy.dbzer0.com    214       158
lemmy.ml            210         0
lemmy.one             4         0
lemmy.world         204       203
lemmy.zip             9         0
programming.dev     324       132
sh.itjust.works     100        94
ttrpg.network         0         0

That's a very informative CBC news article data data centres in Canada.

96 proposed hyperscaler DCs is excessive. Especially for water stressed regions like Alberta.

I believe we do need some more DCs for Canada's own sovereign needs. With appropriate care for noise impact and power/water usage to avoid causing undue problems. AI is a bubble but there is a demand for it so better to use Canadian AI (cohere.com) hosted in Canadian DCs.

lemmy.ca itself is hosted in an East Vancouver data centre:

https://lemmy.ca/post/37453471

There's a big news release today about an additional 14GW of clean electricity projects for Eastern Canada:

https://lemmy.ca/post/69504197

So Quebec looks like a good place for many new data centres with cheap and clean power.

That's right by highways 401 & 407 so it's likely noisy there already. I don't know enough if that is a good location or not but that looks like suburban sprawl style development.

Ontario has greenbelts. BC has Agriculture Land Reserves to preserve farmland for agriculture purposes.

From the CBC article:

"Just put this in context. Tripling the current generation capacity of Churchill Falls to that 14,000 megawatts of renewable power — that's more than the entire generating capacity of B.C. Hydro, it's more than double the output of Bruce Power, the largest nuclear plant on this continent," said Carney.

Here's the Federal Government's News Release :

Prime Minister Carney announces the largest clean energy investment in North American history

Hydro Electricity and Wind Generated Electricity are a great combination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Canada is thankfully not Texas and is not proposing hundreds of large data centers in dry arid water stressed climate zones. A reason there are so many proposals for datacenters in the desert is to be able to use evaporative cooling which is not applicable in our situation.

3 years ago the bot had a bug on lemmy.world which created some comment spam and then it was banned. The bot's error message about "Something went terribly wrong" is funny given my username.

You don't need to re-federate with lemmit.online just for me as the juice isn't worth the squeeze. I'm just requesting improved documentation/visibility about blocked instances to reduce confusion for this and other instances that get blocked in the future.

Digging into lemmy's handling of blocked instances has been an interesting "journey of discovery". I have another low priority related request about blocked instances: https://lemmy.ca/post/69461640

Ah cool, I wasn't aware of dbzero’s Fediseer. Looks like a good way to identify problematic instances to block.

I'm just an end user of lemmy trying to use it more and went down a rabbit hole about blocked instances when I came across something that impacted me.

Thanks for the context.

Your the request/intent to join link doesn't appear to go where it should be.

Email has been doing the "whack-a-mole" battle with spammers for a long time and have tools like https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/ to quickly block the latest bad actor.

The Fediverse will likely need to do something similar in identifying and quickly blocking bad actors.

shell commands to gather data about blocked instances across multiple lemmy servers

# create an empty directory to work in to avoid clutter
# suggest running this to create a directory for today's date:
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`; mkdir $DATE; cd $DATE

# loop through list of lemmy servers to download json files of blocked instances
# and extract the blocked domains to a txt file
for site in lemmy.ca lemmy.ml lemmy.world lemmy.zip sh.itjust.works
do
  echo $site
  site_base_fname=`echo $site | tr \. _`
  curl -s --request GET \
     --url https://$site/api/v3/federated_instances?kind=blocked \
     --header 'accept: application/json' > blocked_${site_base_fname}.json
  cat blocked_${site_base_fname}.json | jq -r '.federated_instances.blocked.[].domain' | sort -u > blocked_${site_base_fname}.txt
done

# number of common blocked instances for both lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
comm -1 -2 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt | wc

# instances only blocked on lemmy.ca but not on sh.itjust.works
comm -2 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_lemmy_ca.txt

# instances only blocked on sh.itjust.works but not on lemmy.ca
comm -1 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_sh_itjust_works.txt

# instances blocked across at least two lemmy servers
# h/t DDG Search Assist AI
awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) {if(instances[instance]>1) {print instances[instance], instance }}}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2

# instances blocked on at least one lemmy server
awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) { print instances[instance], instance }}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2

Instances blocked for sh.itjust.works but not lemmy.ca

9kb.me
aethy.com
archaeology.social
beehaw.org
besties.com
bigballchunkyverse.online
bondsdogs.com
botsin.space
bunnyanarchy.org
channels.im
cherryberry.pink
cryptodon.lol
cum.salon
cunnyborea.top
dubvee.org
eda.social
educhat.social
forum-lucifer.com
fun.with.kyun.li
groupsebelah.com
h5q.net
imouto.pics
jenny.nya.pub
kbin.burggit.moe
kernkraft.social
kids.0px.io
kitsui.life
kokuusa.club
kommunismus.social
lawsocial.org
lemmy.byrdcrouse.com
lemmy.fediverse.jp
lemmy.nebtown.info
lemmy.staphup.nl
lolison.top
m.corduba.tech
masost.one
mastadon.astuto.cc
mastodon-ero.xyz
mastodon.integrata-stiftung.de
mastodon.snmsoc.org
mastodon.svgun.ru
mentalhealth-masto.com
mirr0r.city
misskey.doujin.games
mitra.anon-kenkai.com
moar.cachapa.xyz
mstdn.business
mstdn.jp
nasface.cz
neuroscience-mastodon.com
niederbayern.social
nnia.space
owo.town
pedo.school
posting.lolicon.rocks
puls.social
red.computersforpeace.net
redlemmy.com
scfzfilm.org
seda.social
sfw.community
shota.house
social.cutefunny.net
social.tcpcat.net
startrekshitposting.com
tambayan.us
thoughtful.social
transforthe.win
waterlily.tokyo
youjo.love

Instances blocked for lemmy.ca but not sh.itjust.works

alien.top
annihilation.social
api.clubsall.com
baomi.tv
bbs.9tail.net
bbs.darkwitch.net
bolha.social
clatter.eu
clubsall-api.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api3.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api4.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall.com
cubing.social
cum.estate
cunnyborea.space
decayable.ink
demotheque.com
detroitriotcity.com
dot.surf
enterprise.lemmy.ml
eveningzoo.club
fasheng.ing
freeatlantis.com
freespeechextremist.com
gameliberty.club
granitestate.social
http://api.clubsall.com/
lemmit.online
lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.app
lemmy.almostadatacenter.social
lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com
lemmy.easfrq.live
lemmy.fedi.bub.org
lemmy.fyi
lemmy.jtmn.dev
lemmy.org
lemmy.podycust.co.uk
lemmy.primboard.de
lemmy.shwizard.chat
lemmy.tedomum.net
mindshare.space
news.deghg.org
nicecrew.digital
nightshift.social
noauthority.social
oceanbreeze.earth
poa.st
pravda.me
rebased.social
rebelbase.site
shitposter.world
thediscussion.site
tummy.town
ussr.win
veenk.help
voyager.lemmy.ml
wolfballs.com
wumbo.buzz

That article was painful to read about some people's lack of critical thinking skills. There exist people who believe only Donald Trump can save them from the Epstein class of global elites!!?? 🤯

When the separatist leaders were meeting (plotting) with the American State Department in a SCIF didn't they say they would get $500 Billion if Alberta became independent? And then in the future if an independent Alberta would join the USA it would make more sense for Alberta to become an American Territory rather than a State?

So their end goal is to become a future Norte Rico.

I posted https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850 in the main community about whether to unblock lemmit.online and the comments are mostly negative.

Was a little journey of exploration as while most peer lemmy servers don't block that instance many of them have banned the bot@lemmit.online user based on lack of recent posts.

Thanks for the information!

Need to be an admin on a lemmy server to view the banned users using the lemmy API:

https://lemmy.ca/api/v3/user/banned

https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/user/banned

Looking at https://lemmy.zip/u/bot@lemmit.online I see the last post was 10 months ago so it looks like it was banned around then.

So instead of just looking at whether the lemmit.online instance is/isn't blocked but looking if there are recent posts from bot@lemmit.online across the top 10 lemmy servers I see:

lemmy.world        ❌
lemmy.ml           ❌
sh.itjust.works    ❌
lemmy.dbzer0.com   ✅
lemmy.ca           ❌
programming.dev    ✅
lemmy.zip          ❌
lemmy.blahaj.zone  ❓
ttrpg.network      ✅
lemmy.one          ✅

Here's a suggested starting point for contents:

Sitewide Blocked Instances

lemmy.ca blocks instances at a sitewide basis due to them having inappropriate content. The list of blocked instances can be viewed at:

https://lemmy.ca/instances

Discussion about blocked instances of note:

• lemmit.online https://lemmy.ca/post/1380644

The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:

https://prometheus.io/

They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.

Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...