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Instance blocking should replace defederation (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HerbalGamer@lemm.ee to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Think about it; instead of those in charge or the instances deciding who they don't want to be federated with and thus restricting content for the users, it would be better if users were able to block entire instances instead.

We'd be able to curate our own browsing experience so much better without admin/mod drama influencing the rest of us.

Edit: Alright so maybe not exactly replace defederation, but it should still be an option available to us, and in general should become the default action before defederation IMHO.

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[–] 39Y523R@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about a compromise? Each instance can define a blocklist of other instances they don't want, which is copied to the user's blocklist when they register to the instance. Then you give an option to the user to edit the blocklist.

This way you have the curated experience, but users have freedom to change it for themselves if they want to.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Totally agreed on that, it's actually a feature I'm working on adding to the UI fork I'm going to use for my instance.

It uses the admin-defined Fediseers preferences of an instance and hides content from users according to them.

[–] 39Y523R@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very good.

Also I checked fediseer.com, it's an almost perfect website, congrats.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahaha thanks but I can't take any merit for the Fediseer, that's @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com's baby. It also has a nice GUI that - despite not being the "best motherfucking website" - is pretty cool to look at.

[–] 39Y523R@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

For some reason I thought your thing was part of Fediseer, but now I see it just uses it.

Good luck with your UI fork, I'll keep an eye out on it to see how it turns out.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Looks nice!