Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

• muix@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can block instances yourself, I personally don’t like when an instance makes that decision for me.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blocking an instance is just equivalent to blocking all the communities on that instance. You’ll still see the blocked instance’s posts and comments in other instances and (maybe more importantly) the instance will still influence your feed via voting. So if hexbear collectively upvotes or downvotes some post, that will influence your feed. Defederation is the only way to prevent that kind of influence.

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  • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then block hexbear? Same result.

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