Our little instance is closing to 6 months of operations and it occurs to me I never really asked for some open feedback from our peeps. So I wanted to start a discussion to see your concerns and comments in general. So tell me, in the context of the divisions by zero, what bothers you, what pleases you, what would you like to see improved.
Feel free to share your thoughts about anything.
Just throwing it in there that I enjoy reading some hexbear posts. I’d rather unsub from stuff than remove my option to do so on my own
That was actually shocking to find how many people on piracy themed instance would prefer to publicly beg for censure instead of just blocking communities they dislike from their feed.
I think the entire platform would be happier if there was user-level power to easily block instances. Really hoping the devs consider it a priority.
Every time I block a Hexbear community, two more seem to find their way on to my feed in their place. I’ve been brigaded by their users in the past. If I could block their entire instance, two ways, I would. Since I can’t, all I can do is petition our instance admin to do it.
Agreed, I don’t care that much about that instance - but also mainly browse Subscribed posts in Lemmy so usually just view communities I’m interested & subscribed into. Other people should probably just do that, vs browsing All, if they’re seeing too much in their feed they don’t like.
The real issue is that the Lemmy web ui & most apps/frontends don’t support instance blocking as a user setting. Eventually when/if that’s an option available to most Lemmy users this will become a non-issue.