I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[+] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's entirely different. As an individual, I have the choice to send emails to, or block emails from, Gmail.com.

But on Lemmy, if I am on an instance that federates with Threads, and I don't want Threads.net to get a copy of my content or posts (or have my content or posts show up on Threads.net in the future), then tough shit for me, my only option is to either go silent or move to an instance that has defederated from Threads.

People keep making the email argument, but it is not the same thing at all. I don't think it's fair for a large percentage of lemmy.world's users to not have a voice in a decision that will absolutely impact them, nor is it fair to have a stance of "then leave then."

[–] kpw@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn't send to that server anymore I hope?

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It is. The user just won't see any content from the server they blocked.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

They won't see any communities from the server they block. Users are not blocked in domain blocking.

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nope Lemmy's blocking system is cosmetic only. It's very much useless against defending from real malicious users. I assume the purpose it was built for was under the assumption that it was going to be used exclusively by easily offended snowflakes, which is backed up by the way that most users treat a person's claims regarding a malicious user or malicious instance.