How does this work? I thought only users can block specific communities. My account is on Lemmy.world, but if I’m reading community on lemmy.dbzer0.com, that stuff is stored their server, so why does lemmy.world lock me out of reading it?
Federation means that no, the stuff is stored on many servers. You aren’t reading another lemmy instance, but what that instance sent to lemmy.world. ergo, that stuff is on lemmy.world too. Hence why they want to avoid the lawyers.
You are not reading content from lemmy.dbzer0.com unless you specifically have only that at the beginning of the address. If you have lemmy.world instead, it means you are trying to view content cached there, which no longer exists.
I've never seen one block only one community out of an entire instance, but it's not surprising that they could. I'm assuming like an instance block, all lemmy.world accounts would be officially unable to so much as see new content from there, so no, it physically can't repopulate.
However, the admins will have to play whack-a-mole for a good while every time another one crops up and I'm getting the sense that unlike my fool's errand of blocking every sports community, they stand to be sued out of existence if they fail.
Maybe a bit rich coming from someone who doesn't have to pick up and move, but it's well-known to be an overloaded server anyway and after the initial Beehaw shock, the concept is really whatever to me as long as the fact that it's blocked is widely known. Probably new users will always have that shock, but mostly what it accomplishes is to encourage people to spread out and keep alts if they have too much FOMO.
Edit: Imagine my entire account being banned from lemmy.world for disagreeing with an option that was REVERSED after public backlash. LOL! Enjoy your propaganda cesspool lemmy.world users
I mean I get it, it’s a business move. I’ll just make an account there and continue to use it. Pirates sail the seas with their own ship and crew - they’re used to this sort of thing 🏴☠️
This is just a single instance, lemmy as a whole has thousands of instances. I would suggest not joining the largest most popular lemmy servers if you want to access piracy stuff.
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