Nothing4You

slur filters are a commonly used method on lemmy to deal with certain types of spam.

there are lots of spammers posting links to blog spot subdomains all the time, i think there were at least two new ones just today.

unfortunately, the amount of malicious links (random spam posts) to blog spot significantly outranks the amount of legitimate links, which is likely why this was added to blahaj's slur filter.

to add to that, Lemmy currently does not handle site bans well if it's not a home instance ban, as instances don't keep track of which other instances have banned which users. this should get better with 1.0 though, as a PR to improve that was recently merged.

for now, there is a band-aid solution that federates community bans for all communities local to the instance the user got banned from, but that only includes communities that the user previously participated in, so they'll still be able to participate in the local copies of other communities from the instance they're banned from, it just won't fully federate out.

it's also the case for deletions without account deletions, but iirc there is some delay before it gets rewritten in the db to allow the user to undelete it for a bit of time.

only admins can set communities to hidden currently. this is also not exposed via lemmy-ui, it has to be done via API.

they're using my federation exporter as data source.

it's just scraping the federation api every 5 min for each included instance and then visualizing that.

there seems to be a codeberg mirror but it's not updated continously: https://codeberg.org/LemmyNet

instances get added automatically once they reach a threshold of monthly active users. iirc it's >6 mau, you could check the code to confirm.

the mod got banned from blahaj, which, when set to also remove their content, removes communities they're head mod (or only mod?) of as well: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=124892

that post on lemm.ee in your first point is dead

you shouldn't reuse domains on the fediverse for a new instance anyway, subdomains are fine though: https://programming.dev/comment/14173239