Hey fellow Lemmy Users!

As far as i can tell, instance blocking is good for not destroying the All feed but what bugs me is that it seems like i am not able to subscribe to communities of blocked instances. I know that the big instances will try not to “abuse” this “power” for censoring the endusers choice but i think having this option is not good. I dont know if its possible with ActivityPub to limit connections between instances or if it always needs to be a true/false thing.

There could be different stages of blocking:

  • Users from instance x are blocked on our instance / our Users are not affected if they want to interact with instance x

  • Post from instance x are blocked in our All feed but our users can still access the instance

  • Full block, just like it is now

If i’m completely wrong about blocking, sorry for wasting your time. Tell me what you think about this!

  • Ada
    6•11 months ago

    As an instance admin, the instances that I block are explicitly ones that I don’t want my users to be able to subscribe to for any reason because they are full of bigotry and hate.

    If I have a user that really wants to subscribe to a blocked instance, then chances are my instance is the wrong one for them.

  • hybrid havoc :1m: :rm:
    4•11 months ago

    @Sewot I don’t know anything about Lemmy moderation but with Mastodon if an admin wants to moderate a remote instance there are is a Suspend option and a Limit option.
    - Suspend is a hard block. Content and requests from the remote instance will not be accepted at all.
    - Limit prohibits content from the remote instance from appearing in public feeds or to users that aren’t actively subscribed to that content.

    I do not know if Lemmy has an equivalent, but it seems feasible.