I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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Hmm, I’m still new to Lemmy. How do I block an instance?
But their chaos is so hilarious 😐
Some apps can block instances iirc. But unfortunately lemmy's actual instance filter is busted as shit.
I opened an issue about this, so we'll be getting it in 1.0/1.1.0.
If you use an app like Voyager, you can block entire instances. There are also web interfaces that allow it as well.
This was news to me and super helpful! In the Voyager app, go to Settings > Filters & Blocks. There will be a section called "Blocked Instances" and a button that says "Add Instance". Click the button, and there is a search suggestion box, so you just type "hil" and the first result is "hilariouschaos.com" and you can just click that result and you're done!
But doesn't doing that in Voyager simply apply the base Lemmy instance block? If so then it merely mutes communities from it, but doesn't block users from the instance from posting, commenting, responding, sending DMs, etc.
It's not nothing, but it falls far short of expectations, especially for something called by that name.
I have no clue what all it does or doesn't do. I suspect my time on Lemmy has gotten marginally better, but to what degree, I'm not sure. Good call out though
Unfortunately you really can't, not trivially I mean. Also, lemm.ee's whole schtick is that they don't defederate from anyone.
Lemmy is fairly authoritian for non-admin end-users, but we use what is provided to us (which is why I'm ecstatically happy with the more fully featured PieFed!:-).
Its not that .ee doesn't defed, they're just more careful about it.
For example, check lemm.ee/instances compared to lemmy.today/instances.
Well, I definitely could have taken more time to phrase that more precisely.:-) They obviously don't refuse to defederate from "anyone" - as there are 4 blocked instances listed there - but it's more that they are proud of a diversity of opinion, so that e.g. they do not defederate from Hexbear.net or even from Lemmygrad.ml, which most other instances choose to do. Value judgements entirely aside (although if we were to get into such I would prefer to have divided them into opt-in vs. opt-out), many new users of the Fediverse report having gotten confused about being bullied and how to stop it, and then left (as reported on e.g. r/RedditAlternatives) rather than stick around long enough to find out. So lemm.ee puts a lot of the burden of figuring things out, rather than making those decisions for those new joiners.
Yes, I don't reccommend .ee to newcomers unless they really want to federate with everyone.
Me too - and in that case, lemm.ee is always my chief recommendation for those who want that, while for the more mainstream normal audience, especially centrists (if any such still exist) in the USA, Discuss.Online or sopuli.xyz, etc.