ThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoBit Idea: Flood Lemmy with content then act like the biggest fucking loser when people realize you can't foster active communities like thatmessage-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up129arrow-down1message-squareBit Idea: Flood Lemmy with content then act like the biggest fucking loser when people realize you can't foster active communities like thatThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGorillatactics [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agocrossposting nerds are an essential part of internet communities. That said how do I block instances.
minus-squareThunderComplex@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoyou can’t block a whole instance, only users and communities. you could, in theory, petition your instance admin to defederate a specific instance, but that would effectively block that instance for every user on your instance.
minus-squarechgxvjh [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYou can block an instance, it just doesn’t do much
minus-squarekristina [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoyeah the only way to have fine tuned control here rn is to just host your own which tbf isnt too hard.
crossposting nerds are an essential part of internet communities.
That said how do I block instances.
you can’t block a whole instance, only users and communities. you could, in theory, petition your instance admin to defederate a specific instance, but that would effectively block that instance for every user on your instance.
You can block an instance, it just doesn’t do much
yeah the only way to have fine tuned control here rn is to just host your own which tbf isnt too hard.