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Tom, can I request that we keep our blocklist empty? (self.feddituk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by theory to c/feddituk

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I dont like tankies or tories any more than the next person, but breaking federation is just wrong.

I dont want to have to make a separate account just to get around that, mainly because this is actually already my account for getting around that!

Its quite easy to block a community at user level, if needed, and we are not the target of any spam, but now we users have lost the option of the ability to interact forever with a corner of the threadiverse, which i think is not cool.

If its just me thinking this way, fine, i'll just maintain several accounts, but i would hope its not, because its feeling like instances are gettinh pretty triggerhappy with the block button https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main

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[–] tom 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

After a second thought, I'll keep the blocklist free of political instances, even though most I personally disagree with. In terms of any large ones which are grey areas of legality (loli and stuff like that), yeh I'm protecting my own back by blocking them.

That does mean the blocklist is only 1 atm, I'll keep an eye on what other big instances are blocked by other instances and keep the blocklist updated by doing that. Realistically a lot of the ones I would want to block will be so small I wouldn't notice them so that list will be kept fairly thin I imagine. (I'm not gonna be like beehaw or even feddit.de who have fairly large blocklists)

I get the frustration of having stuff blocked which might feel restrictive, so I'll try and keep the blocklist as small as possible but I do still think some should be blocked.

[–] PrinceFidget 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for the work you're doing. There is stuff that definitely should be blocked (some of which is ethically and legally questionable). I'm willing to bet that the majority of us wouldn't even notice the small stuff, but I fully respect your current stance.

[–] SleepingInTraffic 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheers Tom, you should really link a donation in the sidebar :)

[–] david 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a link in the welcome post

https://feddit.uk/post/41249?scrollToComments=true

[–] SleepingInTraffic 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found it eventually thanks, but it should should still be in the sidebar in case our numbers swell

[–] david 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, and I suspected you had, something about how you phrased it, dunno, but I haven't knowingly passed up an opportunity to repost that link yet!

[–] SleepingInTraffic 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, at the time I hadn't found it! I did chuck Tom a tenner though, this place is worth it.

[–] theory 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] Flax_vert 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the blocked one :P

[–] tom 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocked instances can be found here https://feddit.uk/instances

The one blocked atm is https://burggit.moe/

[–] Flax_vert 0 points 1 year ago

Okay! It is a bit weird so I can see why. I do ask that you DO NOT defederate from anything meta does as a kneejerk reaction as many want to do that. Give it a chance at least 🙏