If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I’ll leave social network forever. I’m done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.

  • gregorum
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    5 months ago

    You can’t block Threads users or comments with the Lemmy instance block function, which basically makes the lemmy instance block function practically useless.

    • @abobla
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      35 months ago

      Interesting, maybe this can be suggested as a future update for lemmy

      • gregorum
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        25 months ago

        It was suggested long ago. This useless bs is what we got instead.

    • Blastboom Strice
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      25 months ago

      Question:

      Is it possible that this happens because your instance has already defederated from threads?

      My instance (mander.xyz) has defederated from them and I too can’t block threads. (Fun fact: mander has only defederated from 2 instances, threads.net and burggit.moe)

      • gregorum
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        5 months ago

        I think you misunderstand: lemmy’s new instance blocking feature that users can use only blocks posts from an instance, not users or their comments from that instance, which is what most people wanted the feature to do: block the toxic jerks from any particular instance along with their posts, comments, etc the same way defederation would. By only blocking their posts but allowing their comments, etc. to come through, the new feature is mostly useless, as it still requires users to be blocked individually.

        Since Threads is an instance that has, rather than thousands or tens of thousands of users like a typical lemmy instance, but tens of millions, this makes things even more daunting for users of instances which don’t defederate from Threads.

      • gregorum
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        5 months ago

        For countless thousands or millions of individual accounts? Are you joking?

        Instance blocking, should block the entire instance, users and all. Not just its posts. 

        • @Wodge@lemmy.world
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          -45 months ago

          If your stance is to stop any interactions with people who use Meta products, then you probably need to stop using the internet.

          • gregorum
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            -15 months ago

            How much is meta paying you to say that?