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Moving to: m/AskMbin!

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I'm getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech.

Mastodon has already caved, and the silence of lemmy's and kbin's developers over this matter isn't exactly reassuring. Since I more or less still have my bags packed from leaving reddit, what are some other communities I could try that would be more resilient to corporate encroachment?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Users can de-federate client side already

Factually untrue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s true in Kbin in the sense that you can block instances as a user preference. You can also block any other domain as well, which means what a post links to. Theoretically you can block Facebook itself, Instagram, Imgur, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Blocking a domain through kbin only blocks threads from appearing on your feed. You still see users from that domain and their comments, and they see you and anything you post since it gets sent to their server. It is also a feature only available on kbin so tough luck for lemmies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good point, I hadn’t thought about users and comments.

Thanks for the info!

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

I haven't quite figured out how to do that. I can block instances by going to the instance homepage, but I can't figure out how to block domains.