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I got a report on one of my posts, It was for the mods of lemmy.ml letting them know that porn was popping up on .ml. I went and checked lemmy.ml's instances and we are now in the blocked list. I know they had a number of large communities so this is just a heads up to everyone who may have been subbed to any.
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The same happened with feddit.de way in the beginning.
On the flip side I hope this helps the lemmy devs see why it would be useful to have better content filtering options for users and instance admins. Blocking us outright hurts federation as a whole. I'll reach out to them in a few days.
I hope it does too, I hope reaching out to them goes well! Also sorry about things getting a little heated in this thread earlier.
Honestly probably not that surprising considering they seem to be very anti-porn and I think are the only major instance to actually block you from looking at NSFW content (which makes me wonder how porn got there in the first place, did someone forget to tag something?).
For better or worse, I'm kind of glad that lemmy.world emerged as the big superinstance rather than lemmy.ml, they seem to be a bit more generalist.
So, in a comment that is now lost to time, I mentioned frustration at Lemmy not having an instance block feature.
Decided to check, and it looks like it's actively being worked on https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869 .
Doubt it'll help with defederation (since we are mostly a porn instance after all), but would be good for the common yiff fearing user.
I messaged Dessalines and proposed a feature to have them block our communities while we could keep getting their content and participating in their communities.
This is what happens when there's still no personal server blocklist. If this is going to keep happening, maybe there needs to be a greater concerted effort on keeping porn instances+communities separate from instances that are used for user accounts and SFW content. Lemmy's strength is still in federation, but when all the general communities are on ~3 servers, stuff like this is still very rough in practice.
Yea, the ability for individual users to block instances as a whole is really needed to stop this from becoming a thing that just happens frequently. Strength is definitely still in federation and people are going to get annoyed with having to have multiple accounts because their instances keep defederating from each other.
That's a shame; there were quite a few communities on there that I participated in.
This isn't good, but nothing we can do about it...
Just very frustrating we got to many Keyboard Jockey's in control of the big instances willing to go and use the nuclear option.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Lemmy is a fantastic Reddit clone, and federation is great for persistence, but it completely lacks nuance in how content is delivered. Defederation is only going to further fragment the platform. No one is going to be totally happy with it until the onus is primarily on the individual, rather than the community or instance.
As a user, I want choice. Give me settings. Give me more control. Then if I see something I don't like, or something I'd rather change, that's on me. That sounds much better than hoping and waiting for a level-headed admin to figure it out for me, or making yet another account when they get it wrong.
We'll never get anywhere if all the admins are afraid of getting on everyone else's "bad side" for content they can barely control themselves.
OH WTF