The problem with this, is that it only blocks posts. You’re still going to see comments, and posts and comments are still subject to vote manipulation.
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ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Another thing to your point is most clients now support blocking communities or entire instances, so by doing this you’re leaving the power and the choice to the users to block as they want at a client level.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
vote manipulation
What is this? Reddit? Votes really don’t matter here.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
That’s just not true.
Sure ok you might not see how many upvotes a user has received but that’s not how vote manipulation works.
Votes influence what you see, and perhaps more importantly they influence what users perceive to be popular opinions.
Upvotes for “genocide joe” comments are a good example. A few people can make an idea seem like it’s mainstream.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
The manipulative tricks only work one way, you can’t downvote ideas you don’t like. So the only thing we can see is excessive support for a genocide joe
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I like how connect handles this, all posts from said instance are blanked out wit a message ‘blocked due to a server ban on name of server. Click to view anyway.’ or something along those lines.
This effectively shields you from those comments, but also makes them accessible should you choose so.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Does anyone know if Voyager supports instance blocking?
LlilL@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Absolutely!
Settings > filters and blocks (manually enter all the way at the bottom)