Of course, that’s to be expected, with people migrating from Reddit and all, but the title is kind of badly worded.
Feel there’s a lot more argumentative and just kind of… angry users on here. (have you seen Sync fans biting everyone’s asses over saying money should be spent funding instances and not an app?)
Live laugh love Lemmy though :)
You may already be comfortable with another app or the web version of Lemmy, but I recommend ‘Connect for Lemmy’ if you’re looking for instance blocking. It allows you to block instances as a user.
I use my phone, but also the browser on the desktop. It really needs to be a feature of the platform. Relying on instance admins to have the exact same preference for what to federate seems unrealistic.
I’m also on an iPhone. I assume Connect for Lemmy is for Android, as I don’t see it in the App Store. I’m using Memmy currently.
Ah, you’re right, Connect is just for Android. Though I do remember hearing of an iOS Lemmy app that could block instances at a user level, but I’m sorry to say I don’t remember the name.
That being said, I fully agree with you on relying on instance admins to defederate / block instances. I prefer to have the agency to choose for myself what gets blocked / not blocked. Though I can’t complain about my instance’s decisions so far, thankfully.
I hope you find something that works for you.
I’d much rather have admins error on the side of federating with everything vs blocking anything they personally deem unfit. From that perspective, I can’t complain about the admins either. However, being open at that global level really requires controls at the user level. I think that would also ease the burden on the admins to try and make the decisions for everyone, as there is literally no way to get that right. Some subset of the user base will always be unhappy.
It would also be interesting if this was part of the onboarding process, if there were some large instances that leaned into extremism, for example, proactively let the users know these things exist and let them opt in or out. That may encourage silos and group think, so that sucks, but so does letting users stumble into this stuff and letting them get shit on before they figure out, oh I need to actually look at the community name and instance for literally every post before I comment. An interesting post is no longer just an interesting post, it comes with community baggage that need to be considered.