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Careful, don't give them any ideas now...

You will notice that users from those so-called "blocked" instances can still:

1. respond to your comments
2. vote on your content
3. send you DMs
4. which are allowed to trigger notifications
5. post in your communities
6. etc.

What it blocks:

1. you from seeing communities housed on those instances (even if posted from people on other instances)

In short it should have been named a "community mute" rather than an "instance block". The best way to block an entire instance frankly is to switch from Lemmy to PieFed. Otherwise there is only a tiny minority of apps (Sync and Connect iirc) that will offer that - the rest merely connect you to the same misnamed instance block (but actually no and rather community muting) feature inbuilt into Lemmy, unless you start to get into things like hacking your feed with a browser plugin to filter users from instances that you want blocked.

Except lacking notification that your content was removed. And a mod mail to ask questions about why. Together that makes lemmy.ml even more authoritarian than Reddit! (For an instance owner Lemmy offers freedom, but for an end-user not so much.)

Also it's missing polls. And user and post flairs. And multi-communities. And... well, need I go on? (PieFed has all of these already btw.)

Dang it, now that you gave them the idea, they seem to have already done it, retroactively. I hope you are happy /s (😭).

Well, there's nothing we can do.

How about paying a living wage for human writers who actually give a damn about the integrity of the end product?

Like I said, there is nothing whatsoever that we could possibly do about this...

the most human place on the internet.

Yes... "human", that's right these are the most human humans that ever humaned their way to humanness, r-r-right!?

(Except for the bots ofc)

Might be a Rihanna fan.

Wcgw?

Using ChatGPT to "fix" Wikipedia, what could possibly go wrong? (/s as the approach seems valid, this is just a funny statement)

Tbf, the AI tools also don't work right, which might have some small bearing on whether people choose to use them or not:-)

Not me 😋🙃😜🥴