This link is broken, like most links. Because so many URL's don't work anymore, I can't defend as many instances as I'd like.
This Mastodon server is closing down. It posted about anarchism (obviously), and had rules against hate speech and right-wingers. You will see a lot of anarchists on this blocklist.
This single-user Akkoma server hosts a single queer woman. What sort of hate speech is she accused of posting? It doesn't say.
This single-user Pleroma server is used by a contributor to the Firefish project. Hate speech coming from them would be weird, when you see what they usually post.
The blocklist contains a very large amount of BirdsiteLive installations. This software lets you repost Twitter content as if it came from a Fediverse account. Those duplicates inflate the number of entries in the blocklist by hundreds.
They are a tiny server that advertises itself as anti-fascist. A look at their timeline and you can see that's true. Where is the problem?
This Mastodon instance with 64 users is used by trans women who like the Ikea shark. I have no idea what they did wrong.
This instance hosts bots, as the name implies, but they have very strict rules about the contents bots can post. Why decide that bots don't belong to the network? Well behaved bots are fun.
Japanese language Mastodon server hosting 155 users, with English language rules against hate speech. All people post about is cats and food. The accusation doesn't add up.
This Pleroma instance has very few posts, so few that you could read them all in a minute. None are problematic. Why are so many sites on the list accused of "no description"?
Bluesky does not federate with the fediverse, it uses a different protocol than ActivityPub, so why block it if it can't communicate?
Sufficiently off topic? No, you will definitely see buttplugs on this single-user Mastodon instance, run by the Buttplug.io open-source project. This is fully on topic. Is your real issue with queer sexuality?
This single-user Iceshrimp instance (a fork of Misskey) hosts a trans woman, who has denied those accusations. For the date of the posts, it is obvious she defended the anarchist Nina Illingworth, who faced accusations of being anti-Indigenous. Those accusations were debunked, and the accuser, the admin of rage.love, was forced to retract the accusations. She looks terribly distressed by this, despite having done the right thing by defending an innocent.
This Mastodon instance, run by a trans person, has 1.2K users, and is very focused on its topic. What could they have done wrong? Don't ask me, I don't understand how cops think.
They are a Mastodon server of 157 active users that describe itself as "queer, friendly and furry" and disallow harassment, it looks moderated: many entries on this blocklists are queer, and have strict rules against harassment.
It's a personal diary using blogging software. Nothing about its contents is objectionable. I don't think it federates at all with ActivityPub.
maia arson crimew is a nonbinary hacktivist, hosting an Akkoma instance for a few friends. It is particularly well known for leaking emails by American christofascists targeting queer people. Why you would ever want to block it?
This Pleroma instance is run by an intersex woman (notice a pattern?) and I don't see what is problematic about the posts from this instance.
It's a personal diary using blogging software. Nothing about its contents looks problematic. I see no federation activity here.
Hundreds of entries in this blocklist are blocked for this reason, which inflates the count with duplicates. While those domains are registered with Facebook, there is nothing there, and there will probably never be, big companies will register thousands of domains just in case. Some example URL's are "metaworkplace.tv", "diversityatmeta.com", "metaigboomerang.net".
A bilingual Pleroma instance run by a French person. I don't understand what they did wrong.
This is the official site of the Dolphin project, well known to have transgender developers. This site doesn't federate over ActivityPub, so why block it?
This is clearly a placeholder entry, how can placeholders post hate speech?
This Akkoma server is home to plural genderqueer users. Instead of a real accusation, they are accused of interacting with other instances, and some of those instances are also accused of nothing more than interacting with bad instances. How many degrees of separation are necessary to stop being guilty of your neighbor's behavior?
This bilingual French and English language Mastodon instance, with 1.5K users, is focused on queer, feminist, and anarchist users. What have they done wrong?
A single-user Mastodon server run by a transgender lesbian. Get used to hearing this description frequently.
A small mastodon server advertising itself as "anti-capitalist, pro-democracy". With only a few posts a day, how it can be a source of spam?
This is the flagship instance of Firefish, a fork of Misskey, alternative Fediverse software developed by a nonbinary person. It seems almost all the instances run by developers of Fediverse software are blocked, which should raise questions.
The homepage links to a blog post showing the owner of this URL was bullied off the fediverse and no longer wants to be part of it. Their tone isn't that of some free speech right-winger at all.
This single-user Mastodon instance hosts a parody account of Joe Biden as a trans woman. The jokes are very obviously made by leftists making fun of centrists. What's wrong with that?
This furry mastodon server looks perfectly safe. "Alt fedi" is a dog whistle for "queer", right?
A single-user Pleroma instance belonging to a person describing their gender as "complex". They post in Chinese and English. Their online presence is friendly, the accusation doesn't add up.
This server, run by adult trans women, for 479 adult trans women, celebrates t4t sexuality somewhere safe from chaser creeps. The word is not used as hate speech. If you don't like the word, that's a you problem, don't try to make it everyone's problem.
This two-user Pleroma instance posts Japanese erotica with NSFW warnings. There's no real social interaction, just posting pictures. It might not be to your taste, but posting sexual content isn't edgelord behavior. Finally, I find something cishet to defend! Took a while.
The only entry with receipts! Let's look at the evidence:
Making your point politely isn't harassment. This is the only
receipt provided in all the entries I checked (which conclusively proves
that receipts can be included on the Bad Space, and simply
never are provided at all). No other entry has any receipts. This is the
only one that includes any, and they prove nothing more than polite
disagreement. Notice also that the context is removed: it is possible
the admin was goaded with insults, yet kept their cool in replying. By
the way, the Bad Space didn't include the dot between the domain name
and the suffix, so this block will never actually work.
The instance rules do not fit the accusation. The admin is the lead developer of Akkoma, alternative Fediverse software, often used by the trans community.
A nonbinary person running a single-user Akkoma instance, and involved in its development. Why is it so hard to accuse people of something concrete? They look friendly, what have they done wrong?
This server is humor focused but has no hate speech, and is the new home of prominent anarchist Nina Illingworth, who recently faced harassment and defamation from blocklist maintainers (oliphant.social, mastodon.art, and rage.love), and forced the admin of rage.love to retract entirely fabricated accusations of anti-Indigenous sentiment. The block is retaliation for that.
This is an ordinary blog by a Linux enthusiast. It doesn't look like there's any Fediverse instance here.
This is the flagship instance of the Kbin project, fediverse alternative to Reddit. Why is every Fediverse developer or flagship blocked?
Not giving content warnings is bad etiquette, but how is it bigotry or hate speech? It should be obvious by now that accusations of hate speech and poor moderation are copy-pasted to every block without any checking. Anyway, the accusation doesn't ring true: their rules require content warnings. The server has 1.2K active users: mistakes will happen once in a while, that doesn't mean the site is unmoderated.
With 5.6K users, this is one of the biggest anarchist Mastodon servers, and they are very much rejecting capitalism. Their rules are strict, and moderation is active. It's likely someone from the server was rude, and because there's no receipts, I'll assume the target entirely deserved it.
This Mastodon server with 46 users is posting exactly what its name says. I am getting tired of trying to guess what leftists, queers, and anarchists have done wrong when they are accused of "no description".
This is the personal portfolio of a developer from Singapore. While he has a Mastodon account, it is not hosted on his own domain. This block is incomprehensible.
This small Mastodon server is run by a lesbian and serves the lesbian community. Are you starting to notice something?
This 351 users instance for LGBTQIA people is supposed to be penalized temporarily due to an admin's poor take, but the Bad Space blocklist has no mechanism to expire, revoke, or appeal any block: once you import this blocklist, it stays forever. Saying a block is temporary is a mean joke when it's entirely impossible to remove them.
This is a single-user instance run by a bisexual person who posts a lot on Fedi. By the way, how can a single-user instance even be "poorly moderated" or a "free speech zone"? You need multiple users to have moderation!
There is only one user on this Pleroma instance, and they are only accused of talking to the wrong servers. It's not even an accusation of being friends: just of having interacted with those servers rather than having entirely blocked them. The interaction could have been telling a bigot to go to hell, for all we know.
¿Por qué el motivo del bloqueo está en español? It should be blatant the blocklist is copy-pasted from unreliable sources, without any oversight. This server is used by gay men who do erotic hypnosis, and they have strong rules about content warnings. Consensual kink between queer people is harmless, even if you personally don't like it.
With 282K active users, the flagship Mastodon instance is the biggest on the fediverse. They are accused of federating with mstdn.io, which hosts only 565 active users. Is mastodon.social home to 282K fascists? Just how many non-fascists is it acceptable to block by mistake?
Content warnings are a question of etiquette, but their rules state that they are required for adult content anyway. It seems the block is due to a single incident that might have been moderated since, how is that reasonable?
This small Akkoma server hosts mostly trans women. Why do you want to fence them? What have they done wrong?
This Pleroma instance only hosts one joke account, that only posts "pants removed successfully" every few days. That's not hate speech, and the posts are too rare to be spam. This sort of humor is not harming anyone, even if you don't like it.
Of course, this small instance belongs to a queer person. A maintainer of Pleroma: every fediverse developer is blocked.
How can a single user instance be poorly moderated? The community manager of raspberrypi.social defended the police in the UK, but how is that a moderation issue? At least accuse them of what they actually did! The receipts are a single google search away, too.
Remember this domain? It was already blocked as mstdn.satania.social. When a server runs on a subdomain, it almost always has a second entry blocking the main domain. This is the fourth trick the blocklist uses to have huge numbers from duplicates (the three others: dead servers, facebook squatting URLs, and BirdsiteLive installations).
This German fan of alpacas is blocked for using Wildebeest, alternative fediverse server developed by Cloudflare. Many sites are blocked for this reason. How exactly is that hate speech?
This Mastodon instance about zoology has strict rules against harassment and bigotry. What could be problematic about it?
They are AI focused, but mostly researchers, talking about the technology and the ethics of AI. Why should they be banned from the network? Don't take out your anger at capitalist tech bros on academics.
Simon has blogged about various topics for 21 (!) years. He posts a lot of technical information about AI, and self-hosts a Mastodon server. Even if you hate AI, how does it help to block people who document the technology?
This is the official instance of the BBC. You know what the BBC is.
The reason provided in the toot linked in the description is: "Reason: techbros". This small instance is used by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, which powers the majority of servers running fediverse software. Free software isn't capitalism.
A huge Mastodon server for queers, with 4.4K active users. So explain this to me: tech.lgbt is blocked by the Bad Space, but it is also a blocklist provider? 14 instances are blocked for the reason "Blocked by tech.lgbt" (like fuckgov.org and anarchism.space, two anti-leftist blocks listed earlier). How can their instance be at the same time blocked and a trustworthy source of blocks? Why would you trust the 4.4K nazis from tech.lgbt with telling you who is a fellow nazi?
Joe is blocked for being a lowercase edgelord and an uppercase Edgelord. Impressive! Where is the proof, or the Proof?
This small Mastodon server with 30 active users is meant to be "a safe haven for trans people". Why should I dig for evidence to defend queer people every time, if the accusation is always "no description"?
This URL is malformed. Reisen is not a valid domain, it's the name of a character from Touhou games. Many entries in this list are not valid URL's and will never work when imported.
This Pleroma instance is for "furries, queer folks". What have they done wrong: being furry, or being queer?
This Mastodon server has 20 active users, mostly queer vtubers. What have they done wrong? They all seem nice.
This mastodon instance with 727 active users is obviously primarily for trans women, even if they prefer to call themselves witches. The evidence presented is also questionable! No. just kidding, it's not questionable, no evidence was presented at all, as usual.
It belongs to a plural nonbinary person who looks friendly, as usual. Why are so many entries nice queer people?
This server is mostly used by gay men interested in bondage. You might dislike it, but consensual kink is not harmful.
As often, this is an Akkoma instance hosting trans women, asked to take responsibility for other instances' actions. They have been known to spam a hashtag? This only affects people who compile these blocklists, not users.
This Lemmy instance serves the queer furry community. Maybe you'll finally tell me what you are actually accusing an instance of?