this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


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At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It honestly makes me concerned about the broader security risks of using lemmy. There's a lot of opportunity for them to target users they don't like by serving them malicious content via lemmy.ml, and they have shown nothing to indicate that they are above this kind of thing imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a way to block an instance, no? Or maybe I don't understand what you mean..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Not really. Well, instance admins can defederate from it, but as a normal user you have a pitifully small list of all not easy choices. First, a couple apps like Sync and Connect can (but for them I don't know if they would block e.g. images from there); second is move to PieFed or Mbin (I moved to PieFed myself, but could not find this post there so had to come back to my previous account, as an alt now I guess, to be able to reply here - so it's got issues); third is move to one of only 3 tiny instances that I've ever heard of that have blocked it; fourth is spin up your own instance, and defederate from them. The long version.

Edit: oh, there is a basic Lemmy "instance block", which blocks only communities on those instances - but not users, their posts, replies, votes, etc., and even that much was rolled back somewhere between 0.19.3 and 0.19.5 so that they can now send notifications to you. So it is very misleading named. The last one there is what almost caused me to leave the Fediverse entirely when I accidentally replied to one comment in ChapoTrapHouse and another somewhere in lemmygrad.ml. The replies to each kept coming in for WEEKS and WEEKS, long after I wanted it to end. The rule "remember the human" seemed to not apply to them.