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I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.

While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

EDIT: Lol I didnt even read the post. I got so excited and jumped into comments. 😅

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

Sail free on the High Seas! 🏴‍☠️

[-] Szyler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is there a way for me to still see this and subscribe to it as a .World'er?

Use another instance just for this community?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

or https://sh.itjust.works/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (this doesn't need a manual application and approval process)

[-] Szyler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I meant specifically without making a new account. When I click those links it just says no posts. Ideally I'd get off world anyway, and just copy my subscription list, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Its not possible. Blocking means lemmy.world rejects any content from !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. They get stuff in the mail and dump in the trash can, that's what's happening.

You'll have to move instances.

I mean, you could just browse through the community via the links above, you don't have to log in (unless you need to ask a question or comment).

[-] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

!comicstrips@lemmy.world

is blocked on my instance (lemmy.blahaj.zone). Because the lead mod was banned from blahaj for posting a (non-political) comic strip made by a nazi sympathiser and not apologising.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you're talking about blocking specific communities, I'm not aware of any other major ones. Lemmy.world is the largest instance, so most likely to be targeted by legal threats, and run by volunteers, so not worth going to jail over.

Entire instance blocks are pretty common though. Ignoring spam instances, the commonly blocked ones would be Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Hilarious Chaos (previously called Exploding Heads).

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Instance drama is becoming real fucking tiresome on Lemmy.

[-] CBYX@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

But here we have alternatives.

Switch servers and avoid power tripping mods.

The main thing is needing to know what's going on

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago
[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s unfortunate. A lot of the first movers that set up early instances during the Reddit blackout are not the type of people that should be running these things.

Think Reddit powermods but more unhinged and extreme.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 weeks ago

Make accounts on 2-3 instances. It's worth it.

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds exhausting switching between them.

[-] Chromebby@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah for example I started on lemmy.world and then there was some defederation drama. So I made an account on lemmy.today because they don't block any instances. Just to give me the entirety of the fediverse. Plus it's good to have a backup in case a server goes down.

[-] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Arnl@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

I created new account yesterday just because of this

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

Enjoy lemm.ee, it's great!

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Until your alt gets banned for saying that you BELIEVE (not know, just believe) that Imane Khelif is intersex/has a Y chromosome.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

That's because anti trans bigotry isn't tolerated. GTFO.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

I think lw blocks lemm.ee/c/conservative but whether or not that's a good sub is up to you.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Just had a look around. On the recent article about immigration, the second highest comment is a progressive questioning the education level of conservatives. So the block is not completely effective.

Personally I think it's a terrible idea for people to be siloing themselves into bubbles where everyone agrees with them. In a democratic political system this cannot end well.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think it's actually trying to block progressives from commenting. They're trying to be an anti-silo.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds great! As a moderate I would fit right in! Oh - except I'm not allowed to.

PS: to be clear, I mean I can't do it with this account because it's not federated AFAICT.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean? Did you get banned? The only ban I see on the modlog is you get banned from /Europe for racism.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed, and I get the feeling that the point of your comment is not to ask any question but rather to propagate that smear even though you probably haven't even looked into whether or not it was justified.

Or perhaps you have, and you can tell me (us) why it was?

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

Tbh, I think those exact mods banned me for the exact same thing. I haven't gone looking.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting. Sorry for jumping to conclusions! I had a private exchange with the mod in which every reasonable thing I said just made him more convinced that I was secretly a fascist. A pretty disturbing experience. I think we need to take back that community, not sure how to go about it though.

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