Maximum number of user-blockable communities? (self.lemmy_support)

submitted 1 year ago by DavidGarcia to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I usually browse Lemmy hot and just block any communities I don't find interesting. As I understand it, the blocking seems to be done by your instance. So is there a maximum number of communities a user can block on the instance side? And what is it?

I'm asking because I used to run into the maximum number of blocks on my Reddit client and it was pretty annoying when my oldest blocked subs would reappear again.

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[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m asking because I used to run into the maximum number of blocks on my Reddit client

I think they used the multi-reddit list as the back-end for subreddit block list. I too ran into the limits.

I don't think Lemmy has any limit, but performance will likely degrade and it is entirely possible that your personal block list causes overload of servers with lots of data in them.

[-] DavidGarcia 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine they must have some limit, otherwise that would be an easy exploit, just creating a practically infinitely long block list to crash the instance. I would get it if clients have an unlimites blocklist, but not instances.

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

otherwise that would be an easy exploit, just creating a practically infinitely long block list to crash the instance.

Perhaps you are unaware of just how unstable Lemmy has been since late May.

[-] DavidGarcia 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough.

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