Two parts to this (as I understand it).
First, what shows up in all
? Users on this instance subscribing to /c/ on another instance will have the posts from that /c/ show up in all
. This largely makes all
a mess but it also gives a general idea of what the culture the admins are attempting to project this server to be. Additionally, this can only be moderated by the instance admins. Things that you’d rather not see in all have to be done via opt out by navigating to that community (seeing all the posts there) and then blocking it - which is not something that a user considering “do I want an account there?” has the ability to do.
Second is the “what do users of that instance do here?” If instance foo
blocks instance bar
it means that posts from bar
don’t show up on foo
- even for people subscribed to foo/c/something
on instance bar
. However, if there is another instance - qux
and users on foo
and bar
both subscribe to qux/c/something
that block has no effect. Users on bar
that taunt foo
users require individual /c/ moderators to take action to ban those users (and the corresponding people need to report problematic posts and comments). For example, posting articles by Peter Thiel in a technology /c/ (this is an example - imagine a more prolific and polarizing individual) or making polarizing/notfunny jokes about gender fields in !programmer_humor
How much active administration and moderation do the admins and mods want to do? Note also that for all those subs with very little activity ( programming.dev/communities?listingType=Local&… ) can make local posts look like a cesspool rather quickly with what would otherwise be an innocuous post on one sub when taken in aggregate.
I am here because with a very few blocks of communities (yes, programming humor) I can have this be something I wouldn’t be embarrassed to have seen in the corner of my screen or access logs while at work.
Ategon@programming.dev 8 months ago
For anybody that stumbles upon this post, pushed out our decision on it and it was talked about in the august newsletter programming.dev/post/1671024
The exploding-heads communities that break our rules have been removed from the instance