I got a report on one of my posts, It was for the mods of lemmy.ml letting them know that porn was popping up on .ml. I went and checked lemmy.ml’s instances and we are now in the blocked list. I know they had a number of large communities so this is just a heads up to everyone who may have been subbed to any.
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The same happened with feddit.de way in the beginning.
On the flip side I hope this helps the lemmy devs see why it would be useful to have better content filtering options for users and instance admins. Blocking us outright hurts federation as a whole. I’ll reach out to them in a few days.
Honestly probably not that surprising considering they seem to be very anti-porn and I think are the only major instance to actually block you from looking at NSFW content (which makes me wonder how porn got there in the first place, did someone forget to tag something?).
For better or worse, I’m kind of glad that lemmy.world emerged as the big superinstance rather than lemmy.ml, they seem to be a bit more generalist.
So, in a comment that is now lost to time, I mentioned frustration at Lemmy not having an instance block feature.
Decided to check, and it looks like it’s actively being worked on https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869 .
Doubt it’ll help with defederation (since we are mostly a porn instance after all), but would be good for the common yiff fearing user.
This is what happens when there’s still no personal server blocklist. If this is going to keep happening, maybe there needs to be a greater concerted effort on keeping porn instances+communities separate from instances that are used for user accounts and SFW content. Lemmy’s strength is still in federation, but when all the general communities are on ~3 servers, stuff like this is still very rough in practice.
Yea, the ability for individual users to block instances as a whole is really needed to stop this from becoming a thing that just happens frequently. Strength is definitely still in federation and people are going to get annoyed with having to have multiple accounts because their instances keep defederating from each other.
That’s a shame; there were quite a few communities on there that I participated in.