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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
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[–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

People tend to call everything fediverse "Lemmy" which causes some confusion.

Kbin has the options to block people, magazines/communities, and entire instances. Hopefully Lemmy will get the block feature because it is awesome for the few times it is needed.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I'm not confused. You can block people on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Can you also block communities/magazines and instances on Lemmy now?

    I probably grouped the three together when it was one or two of those levels.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, you can block communities. Instances are a little more complicated since that's defederation and happens at the instance level, but since you won't see posts from communities you aren't subbed to that's less of an issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I have seen posts from instances with communities I'm not subbed to on the kbin "All" list because someone else on the same kbin server subbed to it. It makes discovering new communities very easy since I don't need to do all the leg work on my own.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    You can block communities and users on Lemmy. You can't block instances, but that wouldn't make sense since you don't see their content unless you go there or subscribe to a community. Maybe blanket blocking users from an instance would be useful.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure if Lemmy is the same, but my understanding of the fediverse structure was that if someone subbed to a magazine/community on another instance then it would show up in All for everyone logged into the same instance. On kbin I have never needed to sub to anything on lemmy.world or beehaw or whatever because someone else subbed to it first and it just shows up on my All feed.

    A mild example of blocking an instance would be if there was one that was entirely in a language I don't know then I have the option to block the instance instead of playing whack a mole with each magazine/community to hide the content that I can't read.

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