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Content curation in the Fediverse is better! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just had my first experience blocking an instance, and it made my realize now nice the lemmy content curation experience is vs the centralized model.

Recently I started noticing a lot of posts from that I just found annoying. There was nothing inherently wrong with them, they just came from a culture I don't understand and so I found them cringey. Since they all came from one community, realized most of them come from the same instance. I just added that instance to my blocklist and the problem is solved!

Now think about in the centralized model. I would be forced to either just accept that these posts are in my timeline, or block each community and user individually. The instance gave me an easy way to manage my content.

I also appreciate that instances can manage the blocking for their users. So the most horrible stuff I don't even see. But it also preserves free speech, as those users who want to say horrible things can do so in their own instance, and most people will just block it.

Anyway, just impressed again by the fediverse!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Never had a reason to block an instance, here or in mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

That is not the point, the point is that you can. You can curate your feed yourself instead of relying solely on an algorithm or a curation team

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I blocked lemmynsfw so that I don’t see straight up porn in my feed but can still see posts labeled nsfw from other instances because a lot of posts that get labeled nsfw are just things like explicit text or the OP labeled it nsfw because it’s not exactly nsfw but also not completely regular either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can avoid seeing posts from lemmynsfw by just… not subscribing to any communities on lemmynsfw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

From what I understand the default behavior of NSFW communities is that remote posts are effectively treated as hidden and don't show up unless you're subscribed or directly access the community. However, Lemmynsfw explicitly altered this behavior such that their posts go into main feeds and were treated as normal (though marked as nsfw).

I was never subscribed to any lemmynsfw community but would routinely see their posts scrolling through top day, so I blocked the instance and now I don't. Very useful feature.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It used to appear in the “all” feed like every fourth post a while back. Dunno if it still does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

On mastodon I follow a lot of hashtags and so I will mute foreign language accounts so they don’t show up in my home feed. Thankfully I’ve never had to block an entire instance but I chalk that up to troublesome instances already being defederated from my instance