There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they’re very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I’ve been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?

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    1 year ago

    Unless their politics is embedded in the software (it isn’t) I’m perfectly able to separate the utility of said software from the views of the creators.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, there is a hard coded word filter which doesn’t allow you to use the scientifically correct term for a female dog. Which is pretty wild.

      • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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        This actually hasn’t been true for several patches now. The slur filter is no longer hard-coded, but instead is customizable on an instance-to-instance basis. This change sure doesn’t stop people from complaining about the (nonexistent) “hard-coded slur filter” though!