It’s a mod tool. Hexbear and Lemmygrad are default blocked and instance admins have to manually unblock them if they want to federate. Further, if someone blocks a user, lemmy users can reply to the account but it won’t show on Piefed for anyone, not just the user.
I never said they were blocked by default, though. You’re taking issue with Lemmy.ml as a test instance despite Lemmy lacking in the tools for censorship PieFed has.
Here’s a snippet from the code regarding blocking comments if a phrase is set to blocked. Credit to @[email protected] for finding this.
Are any phrases set to blocked by default?
It’s a mod tool. Hexbear and Lemmygrad are default blocked and instance admins have to manually unblock them if they want to federate. Further, if someone blocks a user, lemmy users can reply to the account but it won’t show on Piefed for anyone, not just the user.
But there’s no phrases that are blocked by default because that’s what we were talking about.
I never said they were blocked by default, though. You’re taking issue with Lemmy.ml as a test instance despite Lemmy lacking in the tools for censorship PieFed has.
I’m taking offense to my donations to Lemmy being used to run this echo chamber.
If you dislike echo chambers why pick one by the lemmy.world admins???
They don’t really block much stuff.
They love doing it. There’s even been times they’ve specifically made rules specifically for that. Their top mod especially