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I’m on my computer now, so I’ll type out some more detail if you’re interested. To reiterate, I’m just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up…

The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:

lemmy.world  
lemmy.ml  
lemmygrad.ml  
hexbear.net  
lemmy.zip  
piefed.social  
etc...  

I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I’ll put a screenshot of the settings page that’s available to admins below:

If I remember correctly, I was presented with a text box pre-populated with the list of bad guys. I just selected them all with Ctrl-A and hit delete.

A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that’s not realistic.

Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)

A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that’s required by having their stuff federate to your server – not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions – just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator’s workload. Easier to avoid it.

Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.

I might propose instead a step in setup, or on demand, to select major instances to allow/deny federation from

This is exactly how it works. I started a PieFed instance and made the decision (during setup) to trim the defederation list down to none. Users can block on the account level.

That’s not at all what the above comment says.

Images in comments is planned for a future release (probably 1.3). It’s on version 1.1 right now.

Considering how young the project is I think it’s really good already. Room for improvement of course, but very good.

Finding the Center of Gravitas.

Nice Osprey. They are very common where I live but I still get excited every time I spot one.