The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.

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    Welcome to federation, where basically every instance is a proxy to all others.

    Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

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      7 months ago

      Unfortunately blocking an instance only blocks posts on that instance, not users from it, which is the main issue people have with those instances.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah it’s a very common misconception, I find it weird that people are still having it though when 0.19 is widely available.

        Maybe they’re just saying it as a way to be dismissive of the issue, this kind of stuff happens often when people report or call to attention malicious instances or malicious users.

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        7 months ago

        I use Connect for Android, and when I block an instance it blocks the users too. Their comments are still here, but sort of spoiler tagged.

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          Yes but surely you can understand that even votes from these poorly moderated instances are distorting the discourse elsewhere in the lemmyverse.

          Just because you can’t see it does not mean the problem is solved.

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            7 months ago

            So we wanna defederate to steer votes in a certain way? Worrying so much about votes is such redditor behavior.

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      7 months ago

      Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

      Not how the instance blocking feature works. it’s a common misconception because people don’t read the docs and just assume it does what they think it does. From the News Section on Join-Lemmy:

      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.

      It’s not an alternative or replacement to defederation, not even close. I’m really surprised this misconception still persists even after widespread adoption of 0.19.x across the Lemmy network.

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        So you don’t care about the instance you want to ban all the users from there. That’s quite open minded and tolerant!

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              7 months ago

              Can we stop this please?

              It was never that revolutionary in the first place - “if you allow assholes to be assholes everything will go to shit” - I’m shocked.

              … but now, after seeing it as a reply to every second comment on lemmy, it’s just spam and doesn’t inform discussion in any way.