presumably the idea is just to use/interact with the device on one’s own terms, rather than being harrassed by it into engagement?

i do both, but they’re different things.

blocking instances for users was added in 0.19. it works like community block: you don’t see any posts from an instance, but you can see the activity of users from that instance on any other instances where they do stuff.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

[this is not an endorsement of federating with any meta product. i believe in deplatforming hostile actors, which they’ve well and truly proven themselves to be.]

i read the page title, then looked at first result and it was mastodon.social and second was mstdn.social.

mayb for your site to match its title you want to not make “federated” the default status sort option?

(or a b)

i never thought of lisp as concise before

ah, Lenny. I really love Lenny.