This is one of my all time favourites, it never fails to make me laugh!

Ah right fair enough.

It is. Go into your account settings -> blocks and at the bottom is a section for blocking instances.

I’ve got Lemmy.ml in there. You’ll still see comments from their users and posts from users in other communities but you shouldn’t see any of their communities in your feed.

Why not block the entire instance in your settings?

Probably because it’s a Crowdstrike issue, they’ve pushed a bad update.

Sausages, but they have to be good quality ones. Cheap ones can get in the fucking bin.

No that’s new to me too, based off me searching the word and seeing the Wiki article on the toy. I’d seen the word because of one of the instances (blahaj zone), but I literally never see the word outside of Lemmy.

TIL blahaj refers to a soft toy shark sold by IKEA.

Not to mention things must be pretty tense around the house. Once a month seems very regular to me to have such arguments.

Yorkshire Tea

I don’t think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they’re called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there’s no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there’s a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

People get really weird about this, they act like you MUST cycle and train it everywhere and anything is just an excuse.

Yet.

There’s been civil wars in nations all over the world. I think they’re poking fun at which is the civil war? I’m guessing it’s the Spanish one.

The joke isn’t the program itself, it’s the process of deploying a website to servers.

I’ve added it to my blocked instances and I’d recommend others who have an issue with the way the communities on that instance are moderated and the way it’s managed to do the same.

Fortunately there are alternative instances and communities that are less authoritarian with their moderation.

Maybe politics was the wrong word, what I mean is drama.

The way comments and users are purged from ml would make Stalin proud!

But they may not know the history of it or why it was made before joining. I certainly didn’t, it was more about a decentralised alternative to Reddit, I just joined and explored.

I don’t know why the lemmy.ml admins don’t just defederate from everyone but lemmygrad and hexbear. It’s clear that only their extreme views are allowed and they must spend a lot of time banning “libs”.

It would do everyone a favour really. We’d have less instance politics and hopefully more content, and make it the fediverse more attractive to the average person.