I dunno if they'd take too kindly to me saying "hey, I made a personal finance community on an instance without offputting political views, y'all should all abondon this one"...
There, check out that bottom link in the description. When I click on it from my lemmy account, it tries to take me to a lemmy community (which doesn't exist).
Nah, I was looking at it from my lemmy alt. Same deal. Here, I'll edit it again so you can see.
For some reason, whenever I type that on fedia, it removes the "@fedia.io" part
Maybe it's just in the post body?
I've been asking for a personal finance community for a while. The only US-based one I've found is on .ml, which...ew. I haven't made one because I do not have the time to mod a big, popular sub like that one will hopefully become.
Buuuuut I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it so I made it: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
I'm sure it will be a shitshow but at least I tried.
Haha, I got it! It's not anywhere in the settings at all, lol. Like a hidden option. You have to go to the url "https://fedia.io/d/[instance domain name]", like "https://fedia.io/d/lemmy.ml". Then it will give you the ability to block, and that block will be reflected in your settings page.
So I actually forgot that I also made a fedia.io account back when I was trying multiple instances...there were literally like 100 people on fedia.io at the time so I stuck with kbin, but then kbin kinda imploded so I switched to lemmy...
We have the same issue at fedia as lemmy.cafe - single overworked administrator.
I do see comments that say it's possible to block instances on mbin, but I don't see any way to do that on fedia.
TEMPORARY COMATOSE STATE WITH POSSIBLE STRONG HALLUCINATIONS AND SUBSEQUENT AMNESIA
Another vote for blocking but not de-federating. De-federating is a nuclear option with a lot of collateral damage, and it's pretty easy nowadays to just start screaming "pedophile" if your goal is to cause collateral damage. I'm worried that if instances start defederating in a knee-jerk reaction, it will be weaponized.
Just block it.
It kinda worked for a very long time. Like a good 8-10 years. Sure, there was a slow decline but reddit was still pretty good up until new reddit was introduced.
I remember being embarrassed to discuss reddit irl in a way that I wasn't embarrassed to discuss Facebook, for example. Reddit was the dirty little secret.
I think what your_mind_aches is saying is that the mindset has changed. People who didn't know the internet before social media are more emotionally attached to having one single identity online. Even if in the case of reddit it's not necessarily linked to your real world identity.
Since signups are disabled, if we want more content we gotta make it