Skavau

Why are you doing this to yourself?

I imagine that was true for Lemmy’s similar functions in the past (referred to in this thread)

These aren’t specific community *blocks (they’re not blocks as such). They’re keywords. It jus so happens that “196” was a community as well, although that has now been removed.

This isn’t a “block” as such. You can still view meme and 196 content and 196 from piefed.social. As another user said:

"The code that OP has linked to is part of a convenience function for admins to add content to their new instances. It can query individual remote instances (e.g. lemmy.world), or it can query lemmyverse.net, and fetch communities that look to be popular and active.

It’s completely unrelated to routine federation, and doesn’t prevent anyone subscribing to communities that may have those words in their names."

You just try to go to the community from that instance, and it’ll say “community not found” and you just click it. Then someone local needs to subscribe to it for new content from there to federate.

You’re wrong. Rimu has never expressed any objection to pro-LGBT sentiment and has even done interviews in regards to that. I have seen him ban people for anti-LGBT bigotry. This particular ruleset looks like a copy and paste from the retention rules that piefed.social currently has that doesn’t save data from communities after 6 months. (RImu doesn’t have a high opinion of meme-themed content and believes it to be a drain on server storage).

I agree all of it should be optional, and I believe it currently is anyway as instance owners can revert this.

From an instance admins perspective, yes.

Otherwise it’s about on-par at a community moderation level. It has a few other things but they don’t present as viewed from Lemmy, mitigating their utility at the moment.

What does this post have to do with the admins of lemmy.world? The original poster of this thread is from piefed.ca.