• Ging@anarchist.nexus
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    3 days ago

    This is cool, but also what domain would I naively wish to test this on first? Blocking out stuff seems rather odd by principle of how the fediverse operates i guess

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      2 days ago

      Like if you wanted to block all articles linking to The New York Times, now you can. Or I think you could have since long ago but now that’s also possible through the API, in case apps like Voyager want to connect to it.

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      3 days ago

      Blocking out stuff seems rather odd by principle of how the fediverse operates i guess

      Why?

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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        3 days ago

        Because it’s pull-based rather than push-based, so if you don’t want to see something, don’t sub it.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          This seems to ignore a basic use case of Lemmy. Scrolling through all or local posts. Something I imagine most users of Lemmy do. Blocking is useful and would be even if this use case didn’t exist, which it does.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        Wouldn’t you also block comments from those users? Even if you’re not interested it those specific posts, you probably still want that interaction in mutual communities