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Individual control over other federations? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I'm new here - I wondered if there's a way to "block" entire other federations?

E.g. I've seen complaints about "exploding head" being a wellspring for undesirable content, so turning that off individually gives users control over their experience without giving a power of censorship to the admin of this instance.

Also there are servers out there where English is not the default language - which is of no interest to monolingual me. I'd rather turn off content from that server entirely rather than just playing whack a mole with every new community that gets federated(?) Across.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Champion Tiff - it's a new frontier so all of these things I imagine will come with time.

This helped a lot 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do not know how quickly it would be implemented in Lemmy UI, but I fully expect a third party app like sync when it becomes available or connect at some point will support it.

When you request a list of posts, the return is in json. It should only be like 5 lines of code to filter out posts at an instance level using a third party app setting before displaying in the app.

Blocking on a native level will require a database to hold user block preferences, and then the server would have to look the user preferences and parse the json on the way out to fulfill the filter at a server level. At scale, this will be very resource intensive for instance servers, but would be much easier for performance if the filtering is distributed and done on the users computer.

TLDR: hard for Lemmy server to do, easy for third party apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This could be implemented natively with a DB list on the server side that holds the user block preferences and is presented to the Lemmy UI client and then some JavaScript runs on the user side that is supplied by Lemmy UI to block the instances in the view. Would take unification of implementation between server and UI code base, but it would not be 5 lines of code like it would be on a third party app with its own local user setting database.