That sounds too good to be true

So if you don’t like instances that hide their blocklist, just move to an instance that doesn’t. If you don’t like an instance whose admins follow fediblock, or who block instances you want to communicate with, then move to another instance.

If you don’t like the fact that this tool was demonised, then don’t use instances ran by people who demonised it.

It’s decentralised. You can find people who share your opinions.

You could already do that. My instance isn’t upgraded yet, and the option is there for me

Well, that account didn’t last long!

it’s sad to see this strong instance to go.

Hope he’ll […] reappear on fediverse in the future

I think I’m going to have to disagree with you on those issues :)

Nothing of value was lost, I’m glad that Wolfballs never grew big enough to be “the Gab of Lemmy instances”.

And to think, I just blocked them from my instance yesterday!

The only way we could find to do it was via the DB

No, they aren’t. Eugene was concerned that was what they would be used for if implemented, but they’ve been on the fediverse for years on most platforms that aren’t mastodon, and even the research on their use on twitter shows they’re not really responsible for an increase in harassment.

Any concerns about harassment can also be covered by implementing them properly, making them opt in etc…

The thing is, it’s not “Fediverse developers”. It’s the mastodon developer. Most fediverse apps have supported quote toots for a long time. Mastodon is the odd one out.

Yep!

And kinda pointless in the end. Taking down a node in a decentralised network doesn’t achieve much…

He has been since November…

Calckey is a fork of Misskey. An intro post is a good idea. Some links to the default instance, the repo etc. I’ll put something together today

Perfect. Thank you!

I learned two things from that post :)

Unrelated to this post, but I have a question that you might be able to help me with :)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/6506

Right, but then if someone saw the post on lemmy.ml, it would link to my instance, not lemmy.ml.

But if you view the post I linked above directly on lemmy.ml, the link changed to https://lemmy.ml/c/answered@mander.xyz instead of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/answered@mander.xyz, so that lemmy.ml users can subscribe directly to it from their own instance.

That’s what I’m trying to replicate

I’ve been doing some more exploring, and at this point in time, it seems to be Friendica specific. It has group/forum/community functionality built it, and recognises the ! notation for groups.

It’s a bit finicky from the Friendica side, as it won’t work if you haven’t already subscribed to the group via the Friendica interface, but after that, it’s pretty simple.

I’m assuming it’s also relatively recent functionality on the lemmy side, as my instance isn’t completely up to date, and I can’t post to it from Friendica, but I can post to lemmy.ml.

I haven’t been able to replicate this functionality from Calckey or from Friendica (which is what the guy in your example was using).

Thank you for this!

I had vaguely known about it for some time, but it wasn’t until I saw it in action when a podcast I listen to started it’s own instance and group (!acrossthefediverse@links.artemai.art) that I “got” it and started using it. And then started my own instance too :)

Do you mean from within lemmy? It should be easy enough to experiment with and test

Well, an ! is meant to be for a group, and an @ is for a person, but I’m not sure how they actually play out when you try and tag someone with an !

It’s one of the reasons I’m on my own instance.

He still posted homophobic slurs thought, and the instance still has “no restrictions on topic” nor any rules against bigotry listed on their rules page.

The UA fediland one is the ukranian one with the bots. It’s the one that this thread is talking about when they say that russian bots are trying to get a ukranian server defederated.

However, when you look at ua fediland, it has no rules against hate speech, and the admin uses homophobic slurs.

The infosec instance isn’t related to my line of discussion

Where is the rule against hate speech? The rules page says there are no restrictions on topic, but makes no mention of hate speech, bigotry or anything like it as far as I can see.

According to those rules what’s to stop transphobia, homophobia, racism etc?

It’s not quite that simple. The instance in question is an “anything goes” free speech instance full of all sorts of awfulness, including transphobia from the admin who runs it.

Russian troll bots or not, the instance isn’t one I’d be comfortable having in my feeds either way

“Oh, this sounds interesting.”

clicks link

“Oh, it’s a video”

closes tab

Never having heard of Hexbear before, what were they running before, and why are they moving back to lemmy? This is an interesting post, but rather contextless for the general lemmy group…

They’re already making them. There is very little in Black Mirror that is made up from nothing. Most of them are basically extensions of ideas and technology that we already have

I doubt many instance admins would tolerate pile on organisation like that. The instances that would allow it, you’ve probably already got blocked.

In my experience, people very much still care about it…

I’m not sure how a word is the language of sociopaths…

And new and interesting doesn’t do it justice in my opinion. It’s more than that

I am so confused by your comment. What I’m saying is that the fediverse is currently being used by “actual human beings” and they are reshaping a status quo established by tech dudes.

That’s the disruption I’m referring to. What I’m asking you is what do you call it when the small instance admins, the indie developers, etc, reshape the environment from underneath the techbros? If you wouldn’t call that disruption, what is it? 'cause it’s not just “new and interesting”. It’s more than tat

They’re coming to mastodon though. It’s not a hill to die on…

You already have them though. Most non mastodon platforms provide them.

I think that it should be a per community configurable option. If enabled, it would allow lemmy to step in to the niche that gup.pe groups currently provide, whilst still giving moderators the chance to not have poorly titled posts in the community.

Yes, exactly!

Yeah, that’s the bit that I’m expecting to make a difference. The ease of deployment and lack of infrastructure required will make it appealing to many people that might otherwise hesitate due to Cloudflare