• monad@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    It would be less of a problem if we as users on an instance could block entire instances, effectively defederating it just for our user. Then those running instances could defederate only in severe cases.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Blocking an instance on a user by user basis has a key drawback in the sense of those instances you block can still influence the posts and comments via up and down votes

      Defederating basically means that those instances no longer have any influence on the community you’re a part of

      Basically think of it this way, say you’re on a queer friendly instance that is still federated with a right wing instance. That right wing instance can manipulate the posts of the queer friendly instance by up voting queerphobic content and down voting queer positive content. And you block the instance as a user those votes still federated over so you’ll see queer positive content getting down voted to oblivion.

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      1 year ago

      Connect is a great android app where you can block instances. Though I agree this should be a site wide feature.

    • MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I can’t wait for Lemmy to catch up with Mastodon in this regard. Between this and not being able to easily migrate your account to a new instance, it doesn’t feel like Lemmy users have as much of the freedom that the fediverse can provide.