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.

  • Ech@lemm.ee
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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.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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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.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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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.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        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.