Honestly, that’s one thing I’ve never ever seen on the Fediverse, while having seen plenty in conventional social media.
It’s fair that some moderation action might be necessary going forward, but I don’t see this problem exist at a current scale.
Doesn’t take much normally. But still, I think Lemmy would surely benefit from adding custom filter lists that users can enable or disable at will.
Came here to say that!
I can’t comprehend why people would join instances in the list. If you don’t like a particular instance, just hop into the user settings and block it! Why let others set your blocklist?
Experimenting with blocklists is fine and how you find your comfort zone on Lemmy.
I once made an experiment in which I blocked lemmy.world - not out of spite, but to just see what the rest of Lemmy has to offer. Turns out, quite much!
Still, too many niche communities are hosted on .world, so here I am again.
I think that, eventually, we’ll have to resort to networks of trust. Meeting each other offline and confirming this person does indeed exist is one way of severely reducing the influx of bots.
The problem is, it takes a much bigger effort and makes building global networks and new registrations much, much harder. It’ll take a while for the same person to be confirmed in the US and then confirm someone in, say, Philippines.
Damn, fuel is finite
Step 1. Get a lot of money
Step 2. Ignore the laws and get myself a super comfy RTG-powered hidden bunker with a Faraday cage
Step 3. Put my servers in there, take drives full of everything from the outside
Step 4. Live comfortably ever after
Might be frontend-dependent, but it’s certainly an issue if comments are not filtered the same way.
Otherwise, alright, I see your point!