Chuckles the Clown strikes again

I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.

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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.
  There is a "instance block" in Lemmy, but horribly misnamed as all it does is mute communities but still allows users to troll you from the instance in other communities, such as this one
  Move to PieFed, which allows true blocking of all users from an instance, without needing admin approval
  Stay on Lemmy and switch to either the Sync or Connect app - I've not heard of any others that can do this but if someone knows of one please tell me?
  Ask your instance to defederate from them - except for Lemm.ee that's extremely unlikely to happen
  Switch to another instance that has already done so
  Develop a web browser filter, probably using something like Ublock
  Create your own instance, and then you can deferate anyone you want
  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.

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