Blocking exploding-heads
Blocking exploding-heads
It has blatant homophobia, transphobia, racism, vaccine anti-science misinformation, etc. What is mander stand on this?
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I expect things may be a little chaotic over the coming weeks and months.
I'm used to having people or memes I strongly disagree with on my feeds, I'm less used to AI porn on my feed....it's come a long way since Leisure Suit Larry.
Reddit had plenty blatant transphobia, racism, misinformation, antivax stuff etc. But generally outwith particular subreddits it was mocked, argued against, downvoted, removed or users banned. This seems more like r/Science blocking everyone from r/Conservative.
There is rapid growth and communities are being stress tested with far more than just an increase in bandwidth.
As the Lemmy code improves and more 3rd party tools are made available, tailoring Lemmy feeds for the individual should become easier to mod and manage without server sized banhammers.
In the mean time I'm prepared to tolerate some chaos, porn and shit posting....and also understand if instances feel defederating others is the best course of action in the mean time.
Switching between instances is super easy in Jerboa or in browser and whilst this instance is the best I've found I will be keeping an eye on things from a few vantage points.
Mind you, there were subreddits that employed this technique of banning users subscribed or active in other communities they didn't like or approved of. So I guess that would be nothing new. I just wish there was a user-side way to block, at the very least the content coming from instances you don't want to follow. But then you could be still engaged by the users coming from these instances. Then again there are ass hats everywhere.
Blocking people for subscribing or participating in certain communities was the most childish part of spezland. It seemed like a esclating war of control rather than a forum for communication. Good riddens!
It was a general filter, one that isn't necessarily just, but sometimes needed to lessen the amount of moderation needed to do. I'm talking about when it was actually used to protect community and not because of personal grudges or for silly wars between subreddits
Current option is block these 5 communities: