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Garden Fence
This blocklist is intended as a simple starting point for Mastodon server admins who want to protect their users from the worst and most well known sources of:
- Hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia
- Harassment, trolling, doxxing, stalking
- Alt-right, nazism, fascism
- Free-speech-as-in-bigotry, "just asking questions"
- Misinformation, anti-vax, conspiracy theories
- Sexualization of minors, potential for CSAM
- Spamming, denial-of-service, network disruption, abusive bots
The Blocklist
Updated: 2023-07-09
Count: 173
Downloadable Files for Import
- gardenfence-mastodon.csv (Mastodon format)
- gardenfence-fediblocksync.csv (fediblock-sync format)
- Mastodon
- As of version 4.1, blocklist files can be imported and exported from the admin interface, under Moderation > Federation.
- fediblock-sync
- The comand line tool fediblock-sync available from fediblockhole can be used to import blocklists from multiple sources, including remote servers, URLs, or local files.
How is the list created?
The Garden Fence blocklist is generated with a python script:
- Block lists are fetched from each of the reference servers
- Suspend level blocks are counted, Limit/Silence blocks are ignored
- Blocks of subdomains count towards the root domain (blocking
social.bad.exampleis counted as blockingbad.example) - Suspensions which are shared by at least 75% of reference servers are included in the list (5/7)*
- Tags are added by matching against the comments provided by the reference servers
- Servers which are believed to be offline are filtered out to reduce clutter
* percentage is approximate due to rounding, and may vary as server participation changes
Reference Servers
The admins of these servers have given permission for their block lists to be used for the purpose of generating this combined blocklist:
The admins of these servers make their own determinations about which servers to block, and represent a variety of administrative styles and approaches to evaluating the importance of blocking any particular server. They do not necessarily endorse the entire content of the final blocklist, or suspensions made by other servers.
What this list is not...
Neutral / Unbiased
This is not a neutral or unbiased survey of which servers are most blocked accross the fediverse. It is highly biased against the various forms of unwanted content mentioned above.
Comprehensive
This list contains only the most blocked servers among the selected group of reference servers. Some of these servers on their own have much longer blocklists, and there are surely other servers that you may wish to block that are not listed.
It also does not necessarily represent all of the different kinds of content that you might want to block depending on the goals and values of your particular server, such as porn, crypto, bots, etc.
It is also highly biased towards English content, and may not provide good coverage for content in other languages.
Realtime
There is currently no fixed update schedule, but it won't likely be more than once a week or so.
Other Blocklists
One of the aims of the Garden Fence blocklist is simplicity. There is only one list, and I aim to keep it as straightforward as I can.
It might not suit your needs though, so these are a couple of other blocklists you might want to look at. They work on different criteria, and these pages also have some additional information on working with blocklists in general.
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Oliphant’s Blocklists contains quite a variety of different lists, as well as combined lists based on other sources. The Garden Fence blocklist, and Seirdy's blocklist are used as sources for some of the combined lists here.
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Seirdy's Fediverse Blocklists has several manually curated block lists in different levels of severity.