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It doesn't look like this Slide is built by the same dev. It's just inspired by Slide for Reddit.

Make sure to check back after a few days to see if Reddit illegally restores your posts, and file a formal deletion request in writing with support if they do so you can forward their non-compliance to the California AG per the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which they are required to follow by being headquartered in Silicon Valley. They've been restoring posts left and right already, falsely thinking they "own" us, that we won't notice they're breaking the law, and that we won't hold them accountable in large enough numbers to matter.

I do too, but this thread is about ways to filter or block content so I'm not really sure what that has to do with it?

I'd love a way to filter by keyword, which the Reddit Enhancement Suite and some of the 3rd party apps allowed. Maybe the upcoming Sync for Lemmy will port over its filters by domain, user, subreddit, flair, and keyword.

As for Reddit posts invading Lemmy, it seems like most of them are contained to c/reddit and c/RedditMigration, so blocking those two should fix most of OP's issue and that's easy enough to do without any extra tools.

Not really sure what you're talking about here. r/worldnews, r/news, r/UkraineWarVideoReport, r/CombatFootage, r/inthenews, r/RussiaUkraineWar2022, r/Ukraine, r/CrazyFuckingVideos, r/UkrainianConflict, and even r/Damthatsinteresting have posted about it today with thousands of upvotes each.

r/WorldNews even has a stickied megathread about today's news, and sorting by "Hot" on their sub only has a handful of posts not talking about the Wagner Group.

I take no pleasure in inflicting this upon the world. Just remember, you asked. Behold: the balding man.

That's a pretty big accusation. I don't have enough information to say one way or the other and have just read a handful of posts from the Beehaw mods, so I'd appreciate some context and direct evidence if there is any. From what I can tell, they've never pretended to be ideologically neutral, and seek to actively defend minority rights and push back against what they view as fascist movements.

If this is the websockets issue, it's the same thing the latest Lemmy software update is designed to patch once it's incorporated by instances, correct?

To be fair, much of the modern news cycle comes from Reddit. When I worked as a tech journalist years ago, we had half a dozen bots watching relevant subs and alerting us to breaking news. We'd clean it up, fact-check, call sources for comment, and do all the "journalistic" stuff you'd expect, just like with any other story, but Reddit was absolutely part of our workflow. You've got to look for news wherever the news is happening, be that a press release, a leak on twitter, or a convo on Reddit, and frequently it happened to be Reddit.

These days you even have tictokers cutting out the middleman and straight-up reading r/AmITheAsshole posts over Minecraft footage for views. Is it any surprise that news sites are commenting on their content firehose being turned off?

I opened this thread because I had the exact same thought, except my brain went to "dove (facing left) with a toupee" instead of "balding man".

Yes, but what we're talking about here is how to effectively target and limit violence, bigotry, hate speech, etc., and that happens best at the community level not the instance level. Let's say you have something like this:

• MixedBag.social - a popular fictitious instance that has some good communities and one really bad one
• MixedBag.social/c/BigotsRUs - a community of bigoted content that YourInstance.com doesn't want to deal with
• Users of MixedBag.social - a mixed bag themselves, who mostly flocked there because of open signups

How do we limit harm to YourInstance.com?

• The Users: Most of the MixedBag users are harmless and contribute to the growth and diversity of the fediverse (including YourInstance), so defederating them is a last resort. But what about the BigotsRUs subscribers? On Reddit, some mods use bots to ban or mute people subscribed to problematic subreddits. We could try something similar here, but that's not the only option. After all, I live over here, not in the community where they're trash-talking. It's when they bring their shit into my house that I get pissed. If they put on their Sunday Best over here and want to have actual conversations, I'm fine with that. That more tolerant approach has the benefit of not ostracising and radicalizing users who are on the fence and just hang out there on occasion for the memes. So basically, ban the bad actors when they cross the line while on your turf, but leave the rest alone.

• The Community: If BigotsRUs is poorly moderated, frequently spews hate, and its inclusion in All harms YourInstance's users, that's what Remove is for. As an admin, you can remove communities from the feed without affecting users or the instance, which feels like the first and best step to handling most issues.

• The Instance: Like I said, defederation is the nuclear option that impacts all communities and all users on MixedBag.social, so I'd rather limit that to a last resort. However, sometimes the instance itself if the problem by either encouraging bad actors or centering around a topic that has no place in your instance's vision. For example, what if you're running an orthodox religious instance for your friends and want to defederate from the porn-only lemmyNSFW.com? Or what if your instance is being overrun by bots from LaxSignUps.social and you don't have a big enough mod team to separate out the trash? For me, that's the ideal use case for instance-wide defederation, and it's the main reason Beehaw is defederating from others. Yes, they're protective of their culture, but right now it's mostly about the small mod team's inability to filter out spam from instances with lax signups.

He's still a joke, just one that stopped being funny a long time ago.