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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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From a practical perspective: it's much easier to choose not to see content from an entire instance I've deemed unhelpful or harmful than it is to play whackamole with communities popping up on my home instance.
It's the difference between my preferred news outlet broadcasting garbage vs a different channel.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that sounds like this is about convenience then. I’m all for convenience, but completely removing content for everyone on a general-purpose instance because someone thinks it is harmful is not ok. That is suddenly declaring your opinion as everyone else’s absolute truth. Saying “you should not see that” is great. Saying “you can never see that” is censorship, and in this case it would be censorship based on a certain opinion.
I propose Lemmy adds the ability for users to label communities and posts when they create them with a content tag of some sort. Users could also suggest adding or removing a label from posts or communities as they browse. This would make content more refine-able and searchable for users/admins and give us each the ability to limit certain types of content we don’t want to see. It would also help solve the NSFW label issue where someone is okay with gore but not with nudity.
I was just responding to your question of what was the difference between blocking an instance and a community.
The community-sourced labeling is an interesting idea, which I hadn't really considered. Not sure it fully solves the concern of bad faith actors looking to JAQ-off and otherwise poison discussions but it's a step in the right direction.