How to see all the communities an instance has blocked from other instances?
How to see all the communities an instance has blocked from other instances?
It's easy enough to look at https://[instance]/instances and see which instances a particular instance has blocked.
But in the cases where an instance hasn't completely blocked another instance but has blocked specific communities on other instances...where can I see/find that?
So far, I've found that reading and parsing the modlog will reveal that if you are willing to search for it manually, but is that the only way?
I am an instance admin and can't even find an option to block access to a specific community (only the option to block one for myself).
Are lemmy.world doing this manually or am I blind?
I don't know how they are doing it. In fact, until today I didn't even know it was possible. I always thought federation and instance blocking was all or nothing.
Have a look at the lemmy.world modlog and search for "piracy" (might have to scroll through a few pages to find it at this point) and you can see where the community is blocked.
Huh, it looks like there's an option to "remove community". I didn't know this is what it did. Good to know!
I believe you can "ban" a community from the sidebar but I could be wrong.
I can purge or block.
On a user, I can purge, block, or ban.
I believe that "block" is for me as a user (e.g. if I block a community it won't show for me in All, but will show for others.
Purge clears everything from the database, as far as I know that doesn't stop you re-federating with that community.