i feel like blocking of instances leads to worse echo chambers than subreddits themselves. We gonna have bubbles of federation networks that don't federate with each other. E.g. lefties, righties, "dark web" illegal shit, kinky shit, and instances that federate with all of them will be blocked by other instances because "use my blacklist or get defederated". This is gonna lead to hell for users having to create fifty accounts for each bubble. Aint nobody got time for that.

i wish it remained a user's option to block/unblock content they don't/do want to see. Each instance could provide their "recommended" default list of enabled instances, and user can go and enable others, like how NSFW toggle works. Maybe group instances into categories with tags or something, like "porn", "memes", "tankies", "nazis", "warez", etc

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sucks but if Lemmy.World is gonna be the "face" of Lemmy it's probably best to keep the shadier sides of the fediverse out. Just to keep the damn lawyer trolls off our back.

Plus it keeps the "uninitiated normies" out of the Piracy instance. At least until they know.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW this is one of the most frequent communities I see while browsing. I don't mind it but it's definitely a bad look if they want lemmy.world to appeal to the everyman.

I've noticed a lot more "normie" content in the past few weeks so it definitely seems like the site is attracting more than just techy people now.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Which was always going to happen if Lemmy is to grow. This is fine, decentralisation is what this is made for, so if you want a vanilla experience with only clean sfw content, you can register to instances A B or C, if you fancy some more open internet, then instances X Y or Z might be more for you.

[–] shadowspirit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I'm fine with the admins using some due diligence. There is some wild s*** out there that no one needs to see terrible and grotesque without warning. The most recent example that I came across was AI generated porn of "jailbait."

Speaking only for myself but if content like that shows up in my feed I will not continue using Lemmy. So I am appreciative of the admins being proactive and if there's something I want to find I'll search for it but the example that I quoted showing up in my feed is absolutely unacceptable to me.

I'm not saying that piracy rises to the level of the quoted example but I don't manage the server and I'm not willing to manage a server so if there are people out there willing to do it to spare me from nefarious things then power to them. They have to do what's right and legal.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. Piracy is illegal and immoral.

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I want to make sleazy companies suffer...

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Become a film director or major video game developer and have your content ruthlessly stolen then.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't, can't afford to go to college or watch films or read plays to become a better director, programmer, writer. Maybe I'm unemployed too :( fuck me, right?

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then write them and don't steal. And everybody is financially suffering so don't use that excuse.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, I feel solace in knowing that we suffer together, pull yourself up by your flipflop straps, right?

[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also lemmy.world is not the most stable instance and experiences a lot of downtime. My user experience got a lot better after I moved out of lemmy.world.

[–] gk99@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've explicitly been using my beehaw.org account pretty much exclusively because of the constant DDOS attacks on lemmy.world.

Kinda funny how their plan to seemingly kill Lemmy is just helping it stay decentralized by pushing people to other instances.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.world is turning vanilla. They closed the shrooms community too!

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, I guess that's it for me, I'm not looking to have my hand held while I access information. I can decide for myself what is and is not acceptable on my feed. Maybe .world is just feeling the crunch and they need to thin out the numbers? It's a shame either way.

[–] Karmmah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's why federation is great. If you don't like how one instance handles stuff you can move to any other instance that suits you or even host your own.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely right. It is very nice having options again.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is the piracy? (Asking for a friend.)

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell your friend to visit !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

thx. forwarded it. happy pirate sounds

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any Lemmy instance list which shows communities that have been defed by each instances? Should help new users make better choices.

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

feedit.de offers a list of instances they have defederated.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every instance shows that list

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

huh, really? I couldn't find it in the side bar of lemmy.ml which is why I thought that it is something they do in particular.