Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 month agoYou can export your settings, remove everything unrelated to blocks, and share it. Then other users can import the json file and it will be added to their existing blocklist.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Good hint, but there needs to be an online registry of them where you can subscribe to them and get updates automatically when they change. This is how Bluesky works and it works very well.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Defederations and bans essentially work like a shared blocklist for all users on that instance. Plus you get a local feed with other users who have similar interests, and blocked users/instances don’t use local server resources.
Subscribing to a blocklist seems risky, because it’s likely that many users would subscribe to a single, popular blocklist. Then it would become a centralisedpoint of control which can silence people across much of the network.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Yes, but I’d rather be able to control it myself than try to find a whole instance that perfectly matches my needs.