I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

  • Snot Flickerman
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    871 year ago

    You can see them jumping from Lemmy server to Lemmy server as they get banned from each.

    Eventually, they’ll just set up their own instances so they can bother people with impunity.

      • @[email protected]
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        361 year ago

        It would be super nice if users could block instances.

        Like, I have no desire to see anything from the furry instance.

        • Mom Nom Mom
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          511 year ago

          It became a thing in Lemmy 0.19 - as long as you’re on an instance that has updated to that, it should be available to you. At the bottom of the settings page in the web ui, but if you use an app they might not expose that to you yet.

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          You can on instances running .19 or newer. Settings -> Blocks -> then at the bottom is an option for blocking instances.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Connect has been able to do that from the get go. As well as individual communities within instances.

            • Mom Nom Mom
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              51 year ago

              If the apps don’t have instance blocking yet, the webui does (in 0.19)… I haven’t tested it, but it’s there, at the bottom of my settings page 🙂

            • kopper [they/them]
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              the 0.19 implementation is so half-assed I genuinely think the Lemmy devs just don’t want that functionality but expected quite a lot of backlash if they outright said as much, so they decided to implement something that ticks the box in the “wanted features” list without having any effect

              afaik it only blocks communities and explicitly lets users from blocked instances through

              • @[email protected]
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                191 year ago

                Feel free to make open an issue to improve instance blocking. Or better yet a pull request. We are only a few devs with limited time, and hundreds of issues to work on.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        31 year ago

        …and then they spin up a new instance with a new domain…

        Domains are unfortunately fairly cheap and it’s not impossible to get a different IP assigned to a server box.

        • @psud
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          41 year ago

          I don’t mind costing them the effort or $10 for a new domain

          Incidentally I have several domains with DNS provided by freedns.afraid.net, which allows sharing domains. Everyone who asks for a domain under any of mine just seems so very sketchy. Now I have to worry if they’re a nazi looking for a new domain to get banned

      • @psud
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        61 year ago

        And the other one is the one with opposite facial hair