If you are on instance A and block instance B, users from instance B can still comment on your posts on C.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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Thanks for the actual answer, good to know.
A bit sensitive are we? lol
I just want to avoid the mod abuse that was back in the other place. Deleting a post with 70 comments and 500 votes because you think the word, "rice" is racist is peak gobshite.
because you think the word, "rice" is racist
I always love things like this, where someone reveals what they did wrong, but leaves out enough context to make them seem like the victim...haha
I'm not necessarily sure whether I'm in favour of the removal or not without the whole context, so I'm not taking a side. But I can imagine why it might've been removed.
When I post a meme that is self explanatory, I use a random word as the title. If you check my post history you'll see "lemon" for Lisa Simpson.
I made a meme that was "My Steam Deck" "Me" "My 4080 Super" and randomly chose "rice" as the title.
So, there's the context.
I would have abused my mod power to temp ban you for the lazy title alone.
Which is fair. But don't nuke the fucking post. We were having some good conversations.
Choosing rice either wasn't random or you just stumbled onto "ricing" and "ricers" which comes from a derogatory name for Japanese motorcycle and cars in the 60s-80s? ("rice burner" and "rice rocket"). . Ricing/ricer later became a term for modded cars/motorcycles which were popular in Japan.
That's where r/ricing and "Linux ricing" came from for Linux/unix theming. It's not unique to that either. People use the term for their gaming rigs. An example of "ricing" in this context is adding tons of RGB LEDs. Some people consider the term racist, other people don't care and continue to use it
LMAO, that is pretty funny. It was random, but if you read the meme the distracted boyfriend is looking at the not suped up version. It's obvious the meme and word were not connected. The mod was just being an asshole. Hilarious that that is even a phrase though.
I think I saw your original post and have to admit that I was a bit confused about the title, but the first thing that came to mind was that you're talking about ricing, so I get why the mod felt like it was meant to mean ricing
I mean, I remember way back when, some people called suped up cars "rice burners." I've certainly never heard it applied to a computer. But meh, I can see your points. Still blocking them because I don't know how many times I need to read that China good US bad, so it's a win in the end.
I'll take this as a learning moment.
I have not been a part of the Linux community for very long but I've heard it a few times already, and since people usually don't just pick random words as a post title, our brains start to look for any kind of connection a poster might have meant. Maybe an ootion for you would be to use very generic titles? Like "meme" or "image" maybe. I think this was mostly a really unfortunate coincidence, but I get that you'd rather just have a less political feed anyways.
Take the L, buddy
I don't have a choice, there's no appeals process. I just blocked lemmly.ml and wanted to ask how it'll affect my future interactions.
Blocking tankies is good practice anyway
Doesnt answer the question.
I wasn't trying to answer it, nor was I responding to any question.
You're good. My feed is actually much healthier today and you're right, blocking the tankies was a good move. I liked knowing what they said, but I'm getting such more diverse posts now. I got my answer in this thread, we're chili.
Blocking is a one-way street. You will not see anything from the user/community/instance you block; but they can still see you and interact with your stuff.
Got it, so they might respond to something and I'll never know?
Yup.
On android, the boost for Lemmy app has some pretty good filters. There's some instances where I've seen nothing but negativity, and I've just filtered them out completely
If it's another instance, then probably not. The owners/admins/mods of the instance you are currently on would need to outright block the instance you have issues with. But then that would affect everyone.
Instance=Server=IP address
~~Yes, block means block. What else would you expect?~~
Apparently that's only true for the admin version, I stand corrected.
If they used the native instance blocking feature to "completely block" the instance that actually only hides posts from that instance.
Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
Huh, guess I mixed it up with the admin version of it.
That seems dubiously useful to me, if a user blocks lemmygrad they probably want none of it, not just hide the posts.
It is definitely a "quirk" of lemmy. When I've brought it up, the answer I got was basically, "everything on Lemmy is public, so blocking wouldn't do anything."
That's not how it works on most other social media (for example in mastodon, which is similarly public), but there you have it.
I get that you can't stop people from commenting on your posts but you can still filter it out from the results.
Mastodon is arguably easier to deal with since you're replying directly to someone, so the user's server can reject it and be done with it. On Lemmy it really should behave as if you blocked the user: just hide it from view. Simply because if you're on instance A, blocked instance is B and the community is on C, B has no problem posting to C as it doesn't know you've blocked it on A. But even defederation doesn't address that either: you can reply to defederated users and they'll never know for the same reason.
I think on this type of social media, not seeing it is the best you can do regardless.