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Lemmy vs. PieFed vs. Mbin
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Ah right! OK first off, you can block all of Lemmy.world with one action now.
Secondly, Lemmy now supports image proxying (with a new feature in Pictrs 0.5, which I believe was also introduced in Lemmy 0.19). I'm not sure which instances have it enabled but in theory you can check the source of images for remote users who have posted images.
Lemmy is already a strain on hard drive storage so I don't think many people have enabled it (proxying will store the images on the Lemmy server for a set period of time).
Thanks for the explanation by the way, it makes sense.
I just need to work out exactly what the effect of the user-configured node block is. In principle, if an LW user replies to either my thread or one of my comments in someone else’s thread, I would still want to see their comments and I would still want a notification. But I would want all LW-hosted threads to be hidden in timelines and search results.
On one occasion I commented in an LW-hosted thread without realising it. Then I later blocked the community that thread was in (forgetting about my past comment). Then at one point I discovered someone replied to me and I did not get the notification. That scenario should be quite rare but I wonder how it would pan out with the node-wide blocking option.
I believe blocking an instance hides posts from your feeds but nothing else, but it's worth testing.
I have lemmit.online (reddit copy) blocked, but I can still search for a specific post and view it. I have also seen others complaining that when they bad an instance they still see comments from users on that instance, so at least at the moment it seems it just hides the posts from your feeds.