Thanks for the feedback - I peeked at the lemmit bot and yeah - madness.

Toying with the X thing, will see what the general consensus is before making any decisions.

We do have an introductory post but it probably needs a lot of work at this point. Its on the to-do list!

The problem is that people tend not to read it… If only I could force them to read and acknowledge 😅

Yeah Zippy absolutely is: https://github.com/Demigodrick/community_bot

Anyone is free to use any of the code. PRs to help expand it/make it better are always welcome too 😂

Yeah there’s a reasoning section on our legal page within our defed policy: https://legal.lemmy.zip/posts/defederation_policy/

You can also click the instances link on the bottom of the ui and go to blocked instances- they should line up (although one of the links doesn’t exist anymore so it’s reminded me to remove it!)

Yes, and we have done before!

In terms of a complete defed, one of the founding principles for lemmy.zip was not to just block other instances based on personal politics or beliefs (unless the other instances were doing something illegal). Rather it’s a gateway to the wider fediverse, and there are tools for people to instead control their own feeds (I.e. a user can defed themselves from another instance to a degree).

.ml also has a lot of large communities on it that I’d be hesistant to block until they’re moved away.

(I personally block the lemmit bot, I’m not opposed to a defed if they’re just creating spam from that instance)

New users might not be aware of the tools available (or even want to take the time to use them) so it might help lemmy growth to have some blocks in place at account creation - and then if people want to explore that content, they can choose to remove those blocks.

I am also not opposed to banning x links - appreciate wider feedback on this though.

There’s a third-party tool you can usually use: https://lemmyverse.link/

So pop the url of the post on the home instance in, and you get https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/post/31943808

Once you’ve set your home instance, it will divert you to the home instance’s post.

Unfortunately there isnt a way that i know of that lets you do it in lemmy. I think adopting sharing links via lemmyverse.link is the way forwards at the moment.

It doesn’t work with frontends sadly though :(

Slightly delayed but underway :)

Thanks Blaze, always good to see you around!

Thank you for being here from the start!