this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Overall it’s probably a good thing that it happened on a single instance so it’s easy to identify …?
yes, particularly with the upcoming user-level instance block feature
I'm bout to never see shit again from .worlders, .works folk, AND from those .dbzero techbro wankstains
I definitely get the desire to block instances, but there are also some good commenters from .world (though they are usually the minority) and I would like to see their contributions still. Blocking individual users is a bigger pain, but results in a better experience in the long term IMO.
It makes me appreciate that our admins only defend from truly scum-of-the-earth instances. As much as .world feels like Stormfront at tines, they're no Exploding Heads.
but there are also some good commenters from .world
And these theoretical good .worlders can move if that's the case; otherwise, I don't have an issue not seeing them based on the behavior of their peers.
Today I stumbled on some of the .world and kbin posts and comments you interacted with over the last week. Yeah, I think I get why you're ok blocking them now.
I'm looking forward to the sweeping sense of relieved stress that not even having to observe such ignorance will bring me, I'm not even playing
If I've understood it correctly, the new feature will only let you block posts from that instance, so you'll still see their comments
I hated that feature on reddit. It was just a tool for people to be cowards and try to get the last word in leaving no right of reply to their bullshit.
It's an instance block, not a personal block. There isn't a reddit equivalent for it as it's a feature that only makes sense for federated social media.
Oh I see thanks.
Ya. Makes it easy to spot that they're from the "reddit instance"
Didn't they defederate from us though? I don't remember seeing many of them bothering us here lately.
Huh. Ok. Maybe I've just missed them or not noticed when someone is from world. It seems like most of the more obnoxious libs have been coming from the tech spaces lately anyway. I'm glad they haven't defederated, I've actually seen a few .worlders listen to what we have to say and ask genuine questions.
it's easy to miss since a lot of people use display names, and AFAIK Hexbear is the only instance that shows the instance even if a display name is set
I wish we did that
It looks like we have Dessalines proposing Hexbear’s implementation now. Why not go with that?
That looks like what we're gonna go with. It solves the issue of users on one instance impersonating users on another.
Ellipse it like mastodon seems to do, all on the same line, and you can see the full name + instance in the cursor tooltip if you leave it long enough. Would that work or was that already discussed?
I think it was brought up at one point. Part of the issue resolving this is difficulty getting a general preference of a representative sample of the userbase.
It should be a default imo. Even just an instance icon would be fine.
It's pretty great
Honestly I think most of the worst ones have just been banned by now lol
Most likely. The ones that were here just to cause trouble are probably either banned or blocked, and the hysteria around lemmygrad has probably faded now that they realise we aren't a group of evil cannibals out to eat their children or whatever.
No, there's still tons of attacks on lemmygrad and 50 times more on hexbear out there. I would say it's increasing, it's massively spilling on lemmy main instance. I won't even want to know what is happening on their instances since they actually even brag about forming hate circlejerks when hexbear don't see and wont spam them with PPB.
Oh, I meant them coming here, I know they talk shit constantly, but they don't come around here as much, because they just make an ass of themselves. They'd rather us be a good imaginary enemy, like all good liberal enemies, instead of people they actually interact with.
I think many of those who weren't banned figured out how to block us at an instance level through apps. Not always, but often they are much worse than they were when they see Lemmygrad or Hexbear on their communities.
Yeah, if you mean here. I seen the ones displaying reddit behaviour getting hammer pretty quickly in the modlog.
but they see ppb every time they look in a mirror
What did they do now? Sorry, I don't generally pay attention to social media platform drama unless it involves a bloated billionaire.