First happy new year everyone! Thanks a lot for all the work provided by admins and everyone involved in this lemmy instance.

Recently I am blocking all communities from zerobytes.monster instance personally. It just appears to be a ripoff some subreddits.

As there is no way to block all communities from some instance as a programming.dev user and as I feel these communities are mostly spam. I wonder if other people share the same feeling and if programming.dev should block them?

I hope I am asking via the correct channel. I don’t think this should be reported as I might also be in the minority and other people prefer to keeps these communities copied from reddit.

  • RobotToaster
    9·
    1 year ago

    FYI, I think the next lemmy update includes user level instance blocking.

    • Cyno@programming.dev
      57·
      1 year ago

      That’s not really a good solution although it is a temporary workaround.

      • Many users won’t know this is a feature they can use, or how to set it up
      • Some users use alternative instances that federate with lemmy which might not have this feature
      • Content still gets copied and hosted on this instance which might not be desireable

      Besides, at the end of the day, shouldn’t the admins and mods here curate the content according to the community’s guidelines and spirit? If someone started spamming undesired content on a forum you’re administrating, the answer wouldn’t be “all the users can just block it if it’s an issue”. I don’t think it should be the answer here either

      • ericjmorey@programming.dev
        2·
        1 year ago

        Your answer seems not to be well liked by all, but I agree that placing too much burden onto every participant will lead to less participation.

        • Cyno@programming.dev
          2·
          1 year ago

          🤷‍♂️ Downvotes are meaningless, I’d rather see them give an actual counterargument if they have one but im used to it from reddit