I used kbin for a while and now mbin for quite some time. I primarily use the desktop website but one thing I noticed from when I tested some Lemmy mobile clients is that I saw a lot more different lemmynsfw communities & consequently threads, like a lot more.
What I don’t know is if this is just a case of this particular instance, or if it is just more noticeable because of the content. kbin was even worse and barely showed ANY content from that instance, mbin was significantly more when I switched, which surprised me. But if we compare for example (pulled from the instance’s frontpage):
We get a 404 on mbin. You can repeat this for a lot of communities there with the same result. If you search for this or other “invisible” communities in the Magazine search, then they also don’t show up there at all:
If this is the case with other instances then I feel there’s potentially a lot of active communities & threads that we aren’t even aware of, but also potentially more fringe instances & communities.
On both you have to search for a magazine handle (magazine@instance.tld) if the magazine is not yet on the server. And not the magazine search but the regular search. It can of course be blocked by the instance, but most likely just nobody searched for it before.
Most mbin instances are very small and even fedia only has like 4000 total users… Therefore not that many magazines/communities have been pulled in, yet…
Seems like you’re right. I tried it before without the actual domain ending in the magazine search which didn’t work. I wish behavior like this and other stuff would be documented somewhere? Like, I still don’t know what’s the best way to universally link to communities / magazines or users that would work across the fediverse so that they continue using whatever platform they’re on.
You blocked it because people constantly (I assume troll-) reported it? That doesn’t seem like a good practice, especially when we have all the Tankie instances (lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear, etc.) federated. Are there other blocked instances?
I was mistaken - lemmynsfw isn’t bblocked. There are only 3 blocked: lemmy.one, lemmy.today, lemmy.froztbyte.dev. Are you proposing that lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear get the block?
I personally wouldn’t mind blocking those three specific ones but others obviously might disagree. I tried giving lemmy.ml the benefit of a doubt for a while but especially the worldnews community just seems disinformation & insults from the same accounts while the mods don’t care or even actively work the same agenda.
I think what would be great is if we could block entire instances ourselves. Right now I am manually blocking all communities that pop up from those three instances, which is tedious. There is an URL for instances (Example: https://fedia.io/d/lemmy.ml), which even features the block button, but it simply does not work in blocking the actual content or even users of said instance. It would be cool if that was an actual feature and a link to the community’s or user’s instance available within the sidebar.
lemmy.froztbyte.dev is/was sending malformed messages that caused this the queue runners to crap out. The others were for persistent harassment of one of our trans members.
I used kbin for a while and now mbin for quite some time. I primarily use the desktop website but one thing I noticed from when I tested some Lemmy mobile clients is that I saw a lot more different lemmynsfw communities & consequently threads, like a lot more. What I don’t know is if this is just a case of this particular instance, or if it is just more noticeable because of the content. kbin was even worse and barely showed ANY content from that instance, mbin was significantly more when I switched, which surprised me. But if we compare for example (pulled from the instance’s frontpage):
https://lemmynsfw.com/c/ecchi https://fedia.io/m/ecchi@lemmynsfw.com
We get a 404 on mbin. You can repeat this for a lot of communities there with the same result. If you search for this or other “invisible” communities in the Magazine search, then they also don’t show up there at all:
https://fedia.io/magazines?query=ecchi&fields=names&federation=all&adult=show
If this is the case with other instances then I feel there’s potentially a lot of active communities & threads that we aren’t even aware of, but also potentially more fringe instances & communities.
On both you have to search for a magazine handle (magazine@instance.tld) if the magazine is not yet on the server. And not the magazine search but the regular search. It can of course be blocked by the instance, but most likely just nobody searched for it before. Most mbin instances are very small and even fedia only has like 4000 total users… Therefore not that many magazines/communities have been pulled in, yet…
Seems like you’re right. I tried it before without the actual domain ending in the magazine search which didn’t work. I wish behavior like this and other stuff would be documented somewhere? Like, I still don’t know what’s the best way to universally link to communities / magazines or users that would work across the fediverse so that they continue using whatever platform they’re on.
Yeah our user documentarion could need some inprovements. Though I doubt a lot of users would actually look at it…
The best way to link communuties is with the !community@instancs.tld which works on lemmy and Mbin, but not on kbin (I think)
It’s because I blocked lemmynsfw after it was reported for the 746272635th time.
You blocked it because people constantly (I assume troll-) reported it? That doesn’t seem like a good practice, especially when we have all the Tankie instances (lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear, etc.) federated. Are there other blocked instances?
I was mistaken - lemmynsfw isn’t bblocked. There are only 3 blocked: lemmy.one, lemmy.today, lemmy.froztbyte.dev. Are you proposing that lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear get the block?
I personally wouldn’t mind blocking those three specific ones but others obviously might disagree. I tried giving lemmy.ml the benefit of a doubt for a while but especially the worldnews community just seems disinformation & insults from the same accounts while the mods don’t care or even actively work the same agenda.
I think what would be great is if we could block entire instances ourselves. Right now I am manually blocking all communities that pop up from those three instances, which is tedious. There is an URL for instances (Example: https://fedia.io/d/lemmy.ml), which even features the block button, but it simply does not work in blocking the actual content or even users of said instance. It would be cool if that was an actual feature and a link to the community’s or user’s instance available within the sidebar.
Just curious, what was the reason for blocking those first three instances?
lemmy.froztbyte.dev is/was sending malformed messages that caused this the queue runners to crap out. The others were for persistent harassment of one of our trans members.