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reddwarf , (edited )
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I understand what you do and what you mean with this post but it will be futile. Hexbear and lemmygrad are toxic instances where you cannot have a proper conversation with its users.

I call it the 4chan style of discussing things. Make you answer a plethora of questions without them needing to answer your questions. The point is to pit you constantly on the back-foot. They count on your morals and decency to keep answering and defending your opinions where they will absolutely have no desire to do the same thing. The end goal is for you to become frustrated and give up. For you to become disheartened.

I urge all instance owners to defederate from these shitholes, nothing of value will be lost.

spaceghoti OP ,

And for those who don’t have the access to disfederate from them, you can block the ones who show up here.

reddwarf ,
@reddwarf@feddit.nl avatar

Rejoice and despair no longer!
This PR in lemmy will implement the possibility to block an instance as user : PR

spaceghoti OP ,

From your link:

Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.

That doesn’t seem to be a solution for this particular problem.

reddwarf , (edited )
@reddwarf@feddit.nl avatar

If the admin of an instance A defederates instance B, all users on instance A will no longer see instance B.
However, other instances (like for example instance C) will still see the comments/users from instance B.

The user being able to block instance B will no longer see anything from that instance B but all other users on instance A will keep seeing all from instance B. It is a personal instance block after all

This is how I understood the user instance blocking and it kinda aligns on how I think the fediverse works. But I could be wrong.

spaceghoti OP ,

I get disfederation keeping people from finding an instance, but blocking an instance apparently doesn’t stop me from having to deal with the users of that instance showing up here.

reddwarf ,
@reddwarf@feddit.nl avatar

Then I think I fail to see what you mean and want.

The PR is meant to be able to block an instance as a user but you seem to think that it is about finding an instance and blocking that? I see no real purpose in such a feature tbh.
This is not how I understood the new feature but again, I could be wrong.

I will await the new feature and hope and pray it is what I think it is.

spaceghoti OP ,

I’m looking for a way to block everyone registered through an instance like hexbear, so when they brigade our forums I can easily ignore them.

reddwarf ,
@reddwarf@feddit.nl avatar

Ditto! 🤞

mycorrhiza ,

you made a thread calling out another community by name and now you are complaining that they are in the thread

spaceghoti OP ,

What complaints am I making?

mycorrhiza , (edited )

all of your comments here are about blocking them

if you just made this thread as a ploy to draw out hexbears to block — ostensibly because you are annoyed that they swarm threads — then you could have simply found one of those previous threads that annoyed you and blocked the hexbear users there, instead of creating a whole new thread just for the occasion.

spaceghoti OP , (edited )

I figured a small civics lesson couldn’t hurt as well. And draw attention to the fact that they’re a big fucking problem that maybe the admins might want to look at. I don’t seem to have a direct way of messaging them.

mycorrhiza ,

the civics lesson comes off as condescending, because it’s stuff everyone learned in high school. and it also seems to take the stance that process is more important than results, at a time when a lot of people could use some results and the process does not seem to be working. the flippancy of the hexbear users in this thread comes from those two things - the perception that you’re being condescending, and frustration at your apparent priorities, which differ from theirs.

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