Overall it’s probably a good thing that it happened on a single instance so it’s easy to identify …?
yes, particularly with the upcoming user-level instance block feature
I’m bout to never see shit again from .worlders, .works folk, AND from those .dbzero techbro wankstains
I definitely get the desire to block instances, but there are also some good commenters from .world (though they are usually the minority) and I would like to see their contributions still. Blocking individual users is a bigger pain, but results in a better experience in the long term IMO.
It makes me appreciate that our admins only defend from truly scum-of-the-earth instances. As much as .world feels like Stormfront at tines, they’re no Exploding Heads.
but there are also some good commenters from .world
And these theoretical good .worlders can move if that’s the case; otherwise, I don’t have an issue not seeing them based on the behavior of their peers.
Today I stumbled on some of the .world and kbin posts and comments you interacted with over the last week. Yeah, I think I get why you’re ok blocking them now.
I’m looking forward to the sweeping sense of relieved stress that not even having to observe such ignorance will bring me, I’m not even playing
If I’ve understood it correctly, the new feature will only let you block posts from that instance, so you’ll still see their comments
I hated that feature on reddit. It was just a tool for people to be cowards and try to get the last word in leaving no right of reply to their bullshit.
It’s an instance block, not a personal block. There isn’t a reddit equivalent for it as it’s a feature that only makes sense for federated social media.
Oh I see thanks.
Ya. Makes it easy to spot that they’re from the “reddit instance”
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it’s easy to miss since a lot of people use display names, and AFAIK Hexbear is the only instance that shows the instance even if a display name is set
I wish we did that
It looks like we have Dessalines proposing Hexbear’s implementation now. Why not go with that?
That looks like what we’re gonna go with. It solves the issue of users on one instance impersonating users on another.
Ellipse it like mastodon seems to do, all on the same line, and you can see the full name + instance in the cursor tooltip if you leave it long enough. Would that work or was that already discussed?
I think it was brought up at one point. Part of the issue resolving this is difficulty getting a general preference of a representative sample of the userbase.
It should be a default imo. Even just an instance icon would be fine.
It’s pretty great
Honestly I think most of the worst ones have just been banned by now lol
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No, there’s still tons of attacks on lemmygrad and 50 times more on hexbear out there. I would say it’s increasing, it’s massively spilling on lemmy main instance. I won’t even want to know what is happening on their instances since they actually even brag about forming hate circlejerks when hexbear don’t see and wont spam them with PPB.
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I think many of those who weren’t banned figured out how to block us at an instance level through apps. Not always, but often they are much worse than they were when they see Lemmygrad or Hexbear on their communities.
Yeah, if you mean here. I seen the ones displaying reddit behaviour getting hammer pretty quickly in the modlog.
but they see ppb every time they look in a mirror
What did they do now? Sorry, I don’t generally pay attention to social media platform drama unless it involves a bloated billionaire.
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Reddit tracks outbound link clicks, lemmy.world does not.
We actually don’t know that. Lemmy does not come packaged with tracking software, but instance owners can add their own. The admins there have actually unsuccesfully tried to dox someone (leaking an email address they thought was that person’s) and track deleted messages on their discord server. We can’t say at this time whether they track users or not.
Lemmygrad btw does not run any tracking software, it’s the legit lemmy software with no modifications.
Using the largest lemmy instances is still far and away better than using reddit.
You’re still interacting with Redditors tho.
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Its where a lot of redditors moved to, and they brought their chauvinism / western supremacy with them.
Of course Reddit doesn’t federate — even if they were willing to do it, what benefit would it be for any other service to federate with it?
Reddit has a massive userbase, and it’s hard to overstate this impact in terms of even fairly large communities on Reddit, who have a user or two at most on Lemmy.
Reddit doesn’t force you to use its app — the website remains freely accessible. I can’t understand why people want to get apps for every website they visit… do you need push notifications for Reddit or something?!
Using the largest Lemmy instances is in many ways equal to Reddit at best.
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What is the advantage you’d have if you could federate on Reddit? Ability to post on Lemmygrad? In terms of communities, Reddit has way more of them on every topic.
Not true, you can use old.reddit just fine on mobile, and even new.reddit to some extent
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