Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it’s requested by users in some way or another.
Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it’s not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.
yeah but then you get shit like, invisible maga replies to all of your comments….
you don’t see them because you “blocked” the instance, but to everyone else there’s three paragraphs of maga shit around everything you write….
soft blocking like this is weak and it is a problem until they’re defederated.
When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.
On mastodon you’d mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)
gotcha… i misunderstood….
if you personally block someone on lemmy you just mute them. they can still see and comment on anything you post, but you won’t see it.
to me that’s almost worse.
i want my blocks to mean they can’t see me at all.
Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it’s requested by users in some way or another.
Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it’s not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.
yeah but then you get shit like, invisible maga replies to all of your comments….
you don’t see them because you “blocked” the instance, but to everyone else there’s three paragraphs of maga shit around everything you write….
soft blocking like this is weak and it is a problem until they’re defederated.
When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.
On mastodon you’d mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)
gotcha… i misunderstood….
if you personally block someone on lemmy you just mute them. they can still see and comment on anything you post, but you won’t see it.
to me that’s almost worse.
i want my blocks to mean they can’t see me at all.
Yeah, real moderation needs to happen on the instance level for sure. :)