I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn't send to that server anymore I hope?

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is. The user just won't see any content from the server they blocked.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They won't see any communities from the server they block. Users are not blocked in domain blocking.

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.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Nope Lemmy's blocking system is cosmetic only. It's very much useless against defending from real malicious users. I assume the purpose it was built for was under the assumption that it was going to be used exclusively by easily offended snowflakes, which is backed up by the way that most users treat a person's claims regarding a malicious user or malicious instance.