what? The good folks at Lemmy.ml didn’t like you talking down about a dictator?

Wild!

I had to manually block .ml.

Well I didn’t have to I just wanted to.

Yeah… except no - nothing at all provided in Lemmy restricts users on that instance from trolling you in your DMs, and in posts in communities located on other instances.

You either have to block each user account one by one (and keep repeating that as new ones pop up), or else switch to PieFed to gain the ability to apply a true instance block affecting all users on it at once.

In fact I hear that lately PieFed.social even applies a user-level instance block against Lemmy.ml by default for all new joiners. It is easily removable and a DM sent to the user explaining how. The feature is transparent as a bag of rocks - I cannot even find solid confirmation that it actually exists - but aside from that it’s a good step IMHO to protect the reputation of the Threadiverse from exactly OP’s scenario.

Flaws? It’s a feature.

Lmao no in general but yes for lemmy!

Glad that the fediverse allows for mitigating this somewhat by design… but this has absolutely opened my eyes to the glaring flaws on the entire Lemmy platform as a whole.

We're extremely happy to welcome @MaddieM4 to Librecast.

She's working with us to finish up our @NGIZero Core work and will be helping us to design and develop Librecast Studio. 🎉

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Fucking hell did the bottom fell off Zcash last night. That sucks.

@gardiner_bryant ok this is really funny. took me a bit to get it.

piefed.social (the instance, not PieFed the software) applies a block and sends a custom private message to new users by using a plugin: https://codeberg.org/wjs018/piefed_onboarding

Malaysian here. I was gonna make you feel better by pointing out the similarities between us but after looking them up… Yeah, I got nothing.

In fact I hear that lately PieFed.social even applies a user-level instance block against Lemmy.ml by default for all new joiners

I don’t think this is true. I looked through the code and the only specific mentions of lemmy.ml are in the instance chooser, where it won’t show you the full defed list of an instance, but (I’m guessing) only the most commonly defederated.

The default interests list even includes some lemmy.ml communities.

I could be wrong though. @rimu@piefed.social probably knows for sure ;)

put me out of misery now

nono, not .mi DUH

;-)

Fuck now you’re telling me I mixed up Malaysia and Mali?! Just put me out of misery now

It’s Mali’s TLD, they just like that it lines up with Marxist-Leninist

honestly I think memorizing TLDs for Geoguessr a few years ago made me think Malaysia before i ever considered .ml to stand for marxist leninist lmao

Yeah, but the tankies still love them. It’s weird. Putin openly acknowledges he’s trying to rebuild imperial Russia, not the USSR, and still.

It’s weird, but they like him because he’s an opposition to the west. They like him because they hate the west.