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Block the Bot (europe.pub)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

Really? I've never been instance banned, that I know of anyway, so that intrigues me: why does it make it more difficult to properly block users from that instance?

Indeed being shadow-banned sucks - it's so unfriendly:-(.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    why does it make it more difficult to properly block users from that instance?

    Because on Lemmy at least, blocking (beyond individual users) generally isn't that effective. Doing so wouldn't hide users of a blocked instance if they posted in this community for example. Even community blocking is a bit weird... I often see image posts from a blocked comm because the image itself isn't hosted on that comm, though none of the comments will be visible (luckily in that case it actually isn't a big issue).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Ah I see what you mean - individually is still fine but en mass yeah Lemmy's "instance block" is named so poorly as to effectively represent disinformation since it does nothing of the kind, instead only muting communities located on that instance but not at all blocking any of the users. PieFed can do it, of course, but Lemmy has gotten left far behind in terms of features. And continues to move forward at a glacially slow pace, it seems to me.

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