I’m new to Lemmy, can someone explain why an instance would block another instance? Is it to prevent harassment between communities that don’t get along?
Generally political reasons. Lots of instances block lemmygrad (a communist/marxist instance) because they tend to have “interesting” views on certain human rights events and totalitarian regimes. But you could also block an instance to reduce spam, prevent brigading, or block certain types of content you dissaprove of.
When it comes to blocking content, your users can do that themselves, however there may be some things like neo-nazi content that you don’t want any used on your instance to have access to. If they want to see that neo Nazi content, they can go to a neo Nazi server.
It’s because the people hosting it are tankies, right? I guess that explains why I wasn’t able to sub to some communities hosted there, even though the communities themselves had nothing to do with politics in that way.
Mostly their attitudes towards human rights and past instances where those have been violated. Things like tianamen and the holodomor (sp?) didn’t happen, and who needs civil freedoms or liberties anyways?
I’m new to Lemmy, can someone explain why an instance would block another instance? Is it to prevent harassment between communities that don’t get along?
Generally political reasons. Lots of instances block lemmygrad (a communist/marxist instance) because they tend to have “interesting” views on certain human rights events and totalitarian regimes. But you could also block an instance to reduce spam, prevent brigading, or block certain types of content you dissaprove of.
When it comes to blocking content, your users can do that themselves, however there may be some things like neo-nazi content that you don’t want any used on your instance to have access to. If they want to see that neo Nazi content, they can go to a neo Nazi server.
It’s because the people hosting it are tankies, right? I guess that explains why I wasn’t able to sub to some communities hosted there, even though the communities themselves had nothing to do with politics in that way.
Mostly their attitudes towards human rights and past instances where those have been violated. Things like tianamen and the holodomor (sp?) didn’t happen, and who needs civil freedoms or liberties anyways?
Yeah that’s pretty gross.
Harassment, illegal content, general dislike, there’s a ton of reasons one might want to block a server from Lemmy.