I sent the MOD this message:
Hi XXXXXXXX, I just noticed that you banned me 2 hours ago from c/Science for Spam. I am confused. I mostly lurk and haven’t commented or posted anything in several months. I definitely don’t post ads or spam. Can you please let me know what happened?
The only reason that I noticed that I am banned is that I watched that (long-ish) video about Brainrot on the feed and the top comment is asking for a tldw.
Wow.
All the more reason to simply filter out ml
i just block the tankie triad, instances, unfortunately you have to block individual users seperately.
do you still have to block the other two (hexbear and the other one, can’t remember the name rn.)? I have .ml blocked, but I thought the other 2 got de-federated so blocking them wouldn’t be necessary?
Both hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are defederated from your instance of lemmy.world (see their names in the blocked part of instances, so you are safe there.:-)
Be aware though that you don’t truly have Lemmy.ml blocked - that function is horribly misleading and despite how you requested to “block” the entire instance, and how Lemmy devs marketed it as a personal type of defederation, that was a lie and instead users from those instances can still: read your content, vote on it, reply to it, report it, send you DMs, and trigger notifications, the same as any unblocked user. The only thing it does is “hide communities” from that instance so that you won’t see those communities, but you will still see those users everywhere else you go across the wide Threadiverse.
There is really no way to block all users from an instance while you are still using Lemmy. PieFed can easily do this (that feature being available for a year ago, though I doubt Lemmy will ever catch up in that respect - the Lemmy devs have little interest in helping people using their software to block their own personal instance), but other than that you would be looking at now-outdated (iirc) 3rd party apps or implementing custom uBlock Origin filtering rules for the web UI.
If you are interested in checking out PieFed, your own instance maintains both a Lemmy and a PieFed version, the former you are already on and the latter at https://piefed.world/, though I think your Lemmy login probably won’t work for both?
Thanks for the reply! I found it very informative, also with regards to the blocking.
I do think it’s stupid that there’s no complete block feature in Lemmy. Also just found out that it apparently has a slower development speed compared to PieFed (with regards to features). This, and the founders of lemmy, are some factors making me consider switching to PieFed. I also heard that there were more features, but also stability concerns. Also most of those extra features are not there on mobile clients yet i believe.
I also checked, and Lemmy login does not work on PieFed.
Thanks for the thanks! I didn’t want to be like proselytizing, unless it was helpful information that you genuinely might have wanted.
The “stability” feature isn’t anything to be concerned about at the moment - that’s for if we got hundreds of millions of subscribers, which… we are nowhere close to now, nor seem likely to reach anytime soon (and we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it). Also a lot of people seem to forget that the true backend of PieFed is not Python but rather an SQL database (PostgreSQL), and all of the ACTUAL (non-theoretical) analyses have proven PieFed to be 25-fold more (not less) efficient than Lemmy (that article says 5x less data for 5x more posts, thus 25x more efficient data usage per post), which also has long-standing bugs that seem to never get fixed.
Anyway it’s not like one is fantastic and the other crap - they both have their strengths and weaknesses, and very few people actually put in the time to bother reading about or do direct testing with either one before spreading their opinions. As an end-user, feel free to use whichever one you want - or like I literally use both at different times and for different purposes, though PieFed is my main that I use 100x more than my Lemmy anymore (several times a day rather than once a… month anymore).
As far as stability, the choice of instance admin team will matter more than whether they use Lemmy or PieFed. Your current team is pretty handy there, somehow in spite of the enormous number of people using their machines. It’s quite impressive actually, imho. I’m not saying there aren’t excellent reasons to spread ourselves around the Threadiverse more than concentrate onto one single server (there are), but neither am I saying that there is much of a reason to flee (unless you don’t like the moderation practices, e.g. the filtering of cusswords). That said, here’s a list.
So instead I’ll recommend this: use the website interface and make an account on PieFed.world, just to see what it’s like. I bet the start-up wizard alone will convince you to stay! The entire model of consuming the content on the Threadiverse is so vastly superior to what we all were forced to do when we used Lemmy that it’s not even close (e.g. you could subscribe to literally zero politics or news communities so that that content does not flood your feed, but then when you want to see such, it’s only a click away - meaning that you can literally have your cake and eat it too! And that hasn’t even gotten yet into the user-customizeable and shareable Feeds! Caveat: the set of predefined Topic areas on PieFed.world does seem rather slim, wow 😔). All that said, if you absolutely want to stick with a 3rd party app, then most of the additional features that PieFed offers won’t be accessible, yet - they will get there but just aren’t yet.
Although some will, including the ability to block all users from an instance. You’ll likely need to make that happen on the webpage interface, but after you do that all of once, it will affect anywhere you log into your instance from - including any 3rd party app you choose to use (I don’t really use 3rd party apps but I did like Voyager btw).
PieFed also allows you to import your account meaning blocklists and community subscriptions, and it can even import entire communities, though sadly no Threadiverse platform currently allows you to transfer your actual full user account - presumably security issues that while not insurmountable just haven’t been the priority yet, as everything gets built up from scratch. PieFed does release features practically weekly though, so lots of other stuff is on the way and one day that will too - just not now.
Goodness this is long, but I hope it helps you find what you are looking for in this shared space!:-)
With PieFed you can block all users of an instance.
Although they can still comment and vote on your stuff (you just won’t see it).
Even better.
Actual footage:
I don’t get it.
They are looking for arguments, but don’t find them.:-)
Yes, we understand each other
Most do. After a few months of being a new user, people tend to figure it out.
Nice instance choice!