Last week, this strange mention appeared on my Mastodon feed. After a bit of clicking around, I figured out what had happened. A user on the Kbin social network had linked to my Mastodon profile. Thanks to the magic of the ActivityPub protocol, it filtered into my mentions - even though I've never even heard [...]
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
If I click on a username there’s a big block button in the top right hand corner of the screen. The “Blocked” tab on my profile settings also suggests the ability to block communities. I’ve heard that kbin supports blocking entire instances at a user level, but only instances can defederate from instances on lemmy
I’ve heard that kbin supports blocking entire instances at a user level
Yes, to do this, go to kbin.social/d/insertinstancehere, then block from there.
I think this is one of the strengths of kbin, because kbin itself can be open and neutral as much as possible and let each user decide the content they want/don’t want to see. Of course this doesn’t stop bad actors from coming over, making accounts, and start giving the instance a bad reputation, making it increasingly likely for it to be defederated by other instances…
If I click on a username there’s a big block button in the top right hand corner of the screen. The “Blocked” tab on my profile settings also suggests the ability to block communities. I’ve heard that kbin supports blocking entire instances at a user level, but only instances can defederate from instances on lemmy
Yes, to do this, go to kbin.social/d/insertinstancehere, then block from there.
I think this is one of the strengths of kbin, because kbin itself can be open and neutral as much as possible and let each user decide the content they want/don’t want to see. Of course this doesn’t stop bad actors from coming over, making accounts, and start giving the instance a bad reputation, making it increasingly likely for it to be defederated by other instances…