there is a rightwinger instance constantly showing up in my feed and blocking users/communities one by one is getting a bit annoying :/
Reporting isn’t good. I do think users should have an ability to block instances for themselves. (you can do that right now if you run your own instance)
Let me guess: exploding heads?
yeah
You should discuss it with your own instance admins.
The best solution is de-federating their connection to that instance but it is done for everyone on an instance so it’s not a small decision.
This is just so far as I understand, I may be very wrong on how this works.
defederation should be kept to a minimum and saved for big offenders only. I think best option is for lemmy to have an option to hide posts from some instances on a per user basis.
I agree with this. Everyone keeps saying that it doesn’t matter which instance you sign up with, since everything is federated. But my biggest concern is thriving communities potentially getting cut off from the rest of the fediverse because they unluckily got created on an instance that has a bad reputation for something completely unrelated. Allowing users to individually hide entire instances for themselves seems like the better approach.
Lemmygrad? A lot of instances ban it, message the admins directly
While I understand your wanting to ban such a community, I think moving away from that type of action is a good thing. It’s all about personal freedom. I have some instances blocked already but I would never decide to do that for everyone because what gives me that right? Speak out against them. Make your views know. Denounce, Rage, never quit. But never censor. Freedom of information and choice is the end goal. Banning a topic is what leads to radicals because they have no outlet for their insanity.
I feel like the recent history of the world proves this not to be true
I know, I was just telling him how he would tell them. It is very important for people to know how to report something
It’s not censoring, they can still go and subscribe to something even if it’s defederated afaik. It’s just not shown by default, which sounds like a great idea for instance owners that want to protect their users or curate the overall atmosphere. Or they just create an account there if they disagree with the decision.
I 100% agree that it’s the owners choice if he decides to block content. But as far as I know if a instance is defederated and the instance owner doesn’t publish a block list, users on the server would have no idea it existed in the first place.
There are already a couple of search engines that show instances. Maybe if some of the developers could add categories so people could find things they are interested in. This could be a useful tool for building communities. As long as it’s an uncensored database of indexes I think this would be great. If you know one that is indexing instances by category please post it.
I’m sure instances will post guidelines and rules once they get everything straightened out. I’m just a strong advocate for personal choice. Once again I understand why some people want moderation and I understand eventually it may well be needed for some communities. As long as the owners are open about this that’s fine, but not all operators are going to be transparent with these policies.
I agree. A bad opinion/agenda that is denounced with logical reasoning and compassion will do far greater good than simply censoring. The potential future followers of that bad opinion/agenda would maybe be swayed by a superior view point if they saw the majority of comments were opposed to it.
I thought it was generally somewhat studied that we’re already at a point where correcting bad actors isn’t enough anymore, as they can spread much faster than humanity has resources to be on top of it with right information. Deplatorming seems to be the currently suggested praxis.
What study?
Let’s hope someone remembers more!
no, not lemmygrad
You should report them to the cyber police and get them cyber arrested for making your cyber feelings cyber hurt. Hope this helps.
Lol 🤣
