It’s really not - all the instance blocking does it mute those communities, but the users can still harass you, triggering notifications, vote on your content, etc. I made the mistake of replying to a comment in ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net and received replies for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards, then did it again on lemmygrad.ml and again received replies for WEEKS and WEEKS - my consent mattered not at all. I found both of those posts by browsing “All” btw, so I had no chance to see the sidebar and had no clue what I was getting myself into, either with regard to the communities or the instances they were on.
I almost left Lemmy entirely because of that, and so I don’t blame others like the 100% of irl people that I’ve mentioned Lemmy to, who then give me dirty looks for having suggested it, b/c of what they see when they visit with a day-1 account. Probably some website somewhere accessible by a straight-up Google search specifically directs them to Lemmy.ml as the flagship instance - which it was at some point even if no longer - whereupon the default search is Local so… yeah, they would absolutely see all the political extremist rhetoric.
Yeah that took months to accomplish for me, but also for example someone (let’s call them “Cowbee” for… reasons) could reply to my very comment here, in a post in a community that is not on Lemmy.ml.
I noticed that 90% of the time when I would receive the most batshit insane replies, whenever they were not coming from hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml (my first instance after Kbin went defunct was StarTrek.website that had defederated from neither at the time) they were coming from lemmy.ml, thus now that I’ve finally managed to block them, my experience on the Fediverse has improved >99%.
I would have left the Fediverse entirely if need be - I don’t need that kind of toxicity in my life. Instead, I only left Lemmy (moving to PieFed) and am enjoying it here immensely now.:-) Other solutions include the Sync or Connect apps that likewise allow you to block all users from any instance you choose without needing admin support, or Lemmy.cafe or Tesseract on dubvee.org that have already defederated from the big 3.
It’s really not - all the instance blocking does it mute those communities, but the users can still harass you, triggering notifications, vote on your content, etc. I made the mistake of replying to a comment in ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net and received replies for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards, then did it again on lemmygrad.ml and again received replies for WEEKS and WEEKS - my consent mattered not at all. I found both of those posts by browsing “All” btw, so I had no chance to see the sidebar and had no clue what I was getting myself into, either with regard to the communities or the instances they were on.
I almost left Lemmy entirely because of that, and so I don’t blame others like the 100% of irl people that I’ve mentioned Lemmy to, who then give me dirty looks for having suggested it, b/c of what they see when they visit with a day-1 account. Probably some website somewhere accessible by a straight-up Google search specifically directs them to Lemmy.ml as the flagship instance - which it was at some point even if no longer - whereupon the default search is Local so… yeah, they would absolutely see all the political extremist rhetoric.
It is possible to block users from lemmy.ml, but it’s not so easily accomplished: https://piefed.social/post/307636.
Ah. I understood “block” as “don’t show that content”. If you’ve already touched poo, then yeah it’s probably hard to get off your hand.
Yeah that took months to accomplish for me, but also for example someone (let’s call them “Cowbee” for… reasons) could reply to my very comment here, in a post in a community that is not on Lemmy.ml.
I noticed that 90% of the time when I would receive the most batshit insane replies, whenever they were not coming from hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml (my first instance after Kbin went defunct was StarTrek.website that had defederated from neither at the time) they were coming from lemmy.ml, thus now that I’ve finally managed to block them, my experience on the Fediverse has improved >99%.
I would have left the Fediverse entirely if need be - I don’t need that kind of toxicity in my life. Instead, I only left Lemmy (moving to PieFed) and am enjoying it here immensely now.:-) Other solutions include the Sync or Connect apps that likewise allow you to block all users from any instance you choose without needing admin support, or Lemmy.cafe or Tesseract on dubvee.org that have already defederated from the big 3.