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“Let me tell you about this thing called Lemmy, it’s great! But first, here’s a list of users you need to block to make it useable. Also, you have to do it from a web browser on a decent computer with decent internet because you’re going to try and load a profile with 1000000 posts.

Once you’ve jumped through those hoops you’ll be able to see the actual content that’s posted on Lemmy”

^this is not a good way to bring someone into the fediverse

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jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Blocking them on Voyager on Android works for me. :)

But I think it’s reasonable to tell people to use the search to find communities that interest them, curate your home feed, and be aware that diving into the “All Federated Content” feed will show you stuff that’s a) not particularly useful or b) potentially offensive to your sensibilities.

It took me way longer to get fed up with bot@lemmit.online than I’d really like to admit, and I only blocked them when it became clear they weren’t going to stop. I could see other people enjoying the feed… but then why don’t they comment? 🤔

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- TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Voyage in iPhone shits the bed when trying to open their user profile, zerobyte.monster is the one I haven’t been able to block yet
  
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  - impiri@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I had the same experience. I had to use the lemm.ee default web interface to block the two repost bots.
    
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  - jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Huh, I went looking for it just now and can’t find it, so either I already blocked it or maybe lemmy.one already defederated from it? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
    
    But yeah… bad administration needs defederation. Bad users need blocking/reporting.
    
    lemmy.world got a bunch of heat from defederating from hexbear pre-emptively, but it seems like that was the right call. Then they got ddossed after defederating from pirate communities. Not saying that’s CAUSATIVE, just “interesting”. ;)
    
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    TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I don’t want to defend from hexbear or pirate communities though they’re fun
    
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- cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  But I think it’s reasonable to tell people to use the search to find communities that interest them, curate your home feed, and be aware that diving into the “All Federated Content” feed will show you stuff that’s a) not particularly useful or b) potentially offensive to your sensibilities.
  
  I was just using lemmy explorer to look for communities and didn’t realize some were just bots cross posting until I looked again later in my feed. I was disappointed.
  
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