Thanks for letting me know, I'll block that instance
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I like it. I was looking for a Reddit client anyways. Now let's give users the ability to block domains like on Mastodon and everyone is happy.
Now let’s give users the ability to block domains like on Mastodon
That's AFAIK already implemented, 0.19 just isn't out, yet.
and everyone is happy.
There will always be the people who try to police others. Just look how even on Mastodon seemingly every instance has blocked Threads despite the fact that A.) users can block instances on their own and B.) Threads doesn't even have federation, yet.
My instance upgraded to 0.19.0-rc and I am so excited to clear out my blocked communities and block the whole lot instead. Can't wait to see how it goes without the hexbear and .ml nonsense.
Can't you just block the instance
~~It's at least opt-in for users to be mirrored (I think), but~~ it's still just creating spammy garbage.
Edit, I was wrong. It's worse than I thought.
It's "opt-in" only for whoever decides to run that for a subreddit/community though.
As in someone decides to run that bot for a community and it will clone all content, they decide if they clone all the reddit comments too.
It's also annoying to deal with as a user because the bots are on alien.top, but the communities are all over the place with new ones popping up.
The new "instance block" feature in 0.19 blocks all communities from that instance, not their users when they post elsewhere.
Gross, I thought it allowed a username to opt it so all of their posts were duplicated.
Time for everyone to defederate from Alien.top
Users can supposedly "claim" their bot persona to take them over.
But... when I switched from reddit to lemmy, it wasn't a matter of losing my comment history from reddit.
In theory, the idea of kickstaryimg lemmy communities with content seems nice, but in practice it's only ghost towns with an overwhelming bot white noise.
Matrix appservice happened
What if lemmy starts dumping its posts on reddit? That might be interesting
Perhaps it's the app I'm using but I'd like to be able to block instances from my feed