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Why on earth are we federated with hexbear and lemmy.ml? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seriously, these guys are straight up tankies with nothing worthwhile to contribute. Can we defederate them and isolate their BS?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You can always block those instances for yourself in your settings

Edit: Sorry, sounds like your instance doesn’t have that yet but is getting an upgrade soon that will enable that feature

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Heads up, instance blocking doesn't do what you think it does. I just want to make this clear because a lot of people suggest it without having read the announcement on the join-lemmy page or the dev comments on github and get a less than accurate idea of what it does. From Join-Lemmy:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

It isn't a souluton to the Hexbear spam problem and this is something people should remember and keep in mind when suggesting it as an alternative to defederation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That’s a really important distinction, thanks for clarifying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, soon as I can, I fully intend to.