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Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s entirely different. As an individual, I have the choice to send emails to, or block emails from, Gmail.com.

But on Lemmy, if I am on an instance, and I don’t want Threads.net to get a copy of my content or posts (or have my content or posts show up on Threads.net in the future), then tough shit for me, my only option is to either go silent or move to an instance that has defederated from Threads.

People keep making the email argument, but it is not the same thing at all.

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kpw@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn't send to that server anymore I hope?

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- ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It is. The user just won’t see any content from the server they blocked.
  
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  - kpw@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.
    
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  - Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They won’t see any communities from the server they block. Users are not blocked in domain blocking.
    
    Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
    
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- Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nope Lemmy’s blocking system is cosmetic only. It’s very much useless against defending from real malicious users. I assume the purpose it was built for was under the assumption that it was going to be used exclusively by easily offended snowflakes, which is backed up by the way that most users treat a person’s claims regarding a malicious user or malicious instance.
  
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