this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federated your community to a lot of instances
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I would argue something like starter packs would be a better fit for this particular feature.
Maybe a starter pack that includes a starter blocklist? ๐ค
Except instance blocklists don't really work much, and are too controversial, and some kind of community sourced user blocklist also is far too controversial. Libs blocking tankies, tankies blocking neolibs, so many in the middle blocking neither, or perhaps both I dunno:-P.
Why? We could at least give it a try and see how it goes
Agreed.
That's kinda what Bluesky has with their "moderation lists" or whatever it's called. They have an entire dedicated MAGA one that blocks all MAGA accounts that join Bluesky automatically for whoever is subscribed to it
The issue is that starter packs would require development. This proposal can be implemented using the existing tools.
Not really, you would just need a community that's focused on posting starter packs, and for people advertising Lemmy to others to direct people to that starter pack community when checking out Lemmy. There are things that could be developed to help make starter packs more useful, but it could start off as simply as just people making posts with lists of communities that people interested in crocheting or whatever should go check out.
We already have [email protected] that is supposed to fill another issue (discoverability of communities), and every week someone asks "how can I discover communities" on !asklemmy, someone points !newcommunities to them, and they say they weren't aware of it.
It's even in the rotating instances messages of Lemmy.world, but still.
Some interesting facts:
Fast-forward to today, and Lemmy still does not offer the ability to block users from an instance. Or for reports to federate to moderators on remote instances. The pace of development is quite slow, and shows little signs of speeding up. Furthermore, why would those same admins of lemmy.ml be in favor of sharing the same power that they wield on that instance with everyone using this software?
Rust is not a language conducive to making many changes to the codebase. I predict that one year from now there will be little change in the Lemmy software, with people still begging for features that they hoped for two years ago already. To be clear it's not the fault of the developers, but of people having too high expectations and hopes.
So yeah, the OP idea is a good one, but I'll cover that separately and here just wanted to say that the slow pace of new features is by design of the language used, and people must simply get used to that.
I'm not too sure. If tomorrow someone came up with a pull request to add that feature, the devs would have to accept it, or publicly admit they actively reject that feature, which would probably create a platform wide drama