If the user can make named blocklists, that sounds like a good idea to me. If it’s just “you can also block all the same people I do” then I am kind of thinking the same thing you wrote here

It really helps communities of people who get harassed regularly. This feature not being on mastodon was a big reason the blacksky community formed based on bluesky. They tried fedi first but desperately need these types of controls to keep from getting called slurs.

exactly what am i ‘missing out’ on by blocking people who spam furry porn all over the fediverse? or similar activities that a ‘normie’ like me is not interested in viewing?

and the problem is there are users who have multiple accounts on multiple instances specifically so they can’t get blocked by being on any one instance or any one account, because they are so determined for you to see their shitty awful content they spam.

the problem is many users are malicious about this stuff and it would be great have a existing block list you could import. and there are so many communities here that are nothing more than pure toxic rhetoric and have no redeeming value to anyone outside of anyone who isn’t into their extremist/delusional beliefs.

I think it’s way healthier than the uninvited community mixing that comes from automated post merging. There’s already a pretty significant ideological bent against moderating communities on the threadiverse; this is just an opt-in tool to counter the entitlement to an audience.

Yes I expect it will be a mixed bag. But we all know how much blocking new people need to do to make this place livable so hopefully this will help people get to that state quicker.

I mean, it makes running a smaller instance a lot easier. Maybe read what it actually does and think about why it would potentially be problematic.

Presumably people running small instances would make us of this drawing on moderation efforts from a bigger instance that they trust. It’ll benefit people on smaller or single use instances, but shouldn’t affect the majority of users. Just makes decentralization more painless.

I agree some other name such as “filtered banlist federation” or something could seem less scary as a label than “auto-ban”.

I use both, starting another flamewar doesn’t seem positive for either project.

Sharing of ideas and code is a core tenant of FOSS. PyLova literally started as a copy of Piefed. Why shouldn’t the ideas and features flow both ways?

Multiple images in posts and in-line comment editing are basic features coppied from Reddit (and, like, every social media site), which probably coppied them from somewhere else. Let’s not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

Its a fork isn’t it? So like 95℅ of the codes the same.

If you love pylova so much why don’t you just marry it?