Good heavens - fediblock fever has taken hold of lemmy instances - apparently Infosec.pub doesn’t block all the right instances and that is being attributed to malice
@jerry just out of interest, how do instance admins know which instances to block or warn about? Is it just admins talking to each other and saying “this instance is bad, you should block them” or is there some form of analysis done to determine if an instance probably should be blocked for hosting malware, etc?
@jerry i would love to see an open source federated alternative to all the big socials. I’ve settled on Mastodon for micro blogging, there are enough info sec and progressive peeps here to keep me engaged. As for Lemmy, well, sounds like it’s growing, but it won’t supplant the communities on Reddit for now unfortunately.
@jerry I didn’t know you ran a Lemmy instance too! Is Lemmy actually growing? Last I saw the Reddit protests died and things are the same as they alaways are.
@jerry I've only been online since the days of Usenet and IRC and BBS, so maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the whole point of the federated network that you can choose the instance based on your own personal preferences, and we avoid a bubble by not enforcing one set of views on the entire distributed network?
Like, say, I dunno, everyone preemptively blocking Meta's Threads before they're even federating when half the reasons for doing so don't make any sense despite the company giving no shortage of legitimate concerns?
@pauliehedron apparently I was supposed to have known to block lemmygrad and exploding-heads - never received a report about either of them. But my choice to block shit just works is controversial, despite them causing a river of complaints.
@jerry Oh hey, I'm part of that one (shit just works). Is there some reason I shouldn't be? In any case I've definitely seen block related drama, at least some of it stemming from inability for individual users to block instances directly from what I can tell.
@bikedog I had a lot of trolling and questionable porn coming from SJW. After a while, I just blocked the instance. I don’t like doing that, but I only have so much time.
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