A refugee from reddit like a lot of others I guess. I registered to .world because it was open and .ml was kinda full. Now as the dust of mass migration starts to settle the leanings of different lemmy instances are becoming clearer. The fact that lemmygrad is just straight out batshit /r/Donald was pretty obvious right away. The fact that .ml passes downvotes to the CCP social score system was not. Federation starts to dissolve into islands of let’s call them “interests”. Two questions come to mind:
- Is there an overview of what instance is federated with what instance? A reason for defederation would be nice too.
- Is there one place where I can check moderation policy for this particular instance? Two of the instances I came across turned out to have “leanings” as already mentioned. May I cautiously ask what “leaning” if applicable I might encounter here?
Do you know if there is a way to block instances from a community you have created? I made [email protected] and I’d like to block the entirety of lemmygrad’s crazy assholes from my community.
I don’t think there is a way native to Lemmy for a mod to do that. You would have to talk to the instance admin you are on to defederate them at the moment. This might change in the future.
What you might be able to do is see if anyone has made a mod bot yet. Then you could configure the bot to ban anyone who posts from instances you don’t like. So reactive bans instead of preemptive.
I’ve seen the first couple bots pop up so I would expect to see a mod bot pretty soon.
I might try to look into that, thanks. The only time I could ever imagine using that function would be for those fringe extremism instances.