• TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Its a clean looking UI but how do they ban you for using it? Are they monitoring your comments?

    For me I like the Lemmy old UI, simple and compact.

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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      1 day ago

      They don’t ban you. The UI automatically hides certain instances, communities, users and posts. This is not officially documented and can’t be configured or turned off.

        • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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          16 hours ago

          As far as I‘ve understood, „toxic mode“ only turns off some of the filters, not all.

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          • The dev‘s definition of toxic is far from my own
          • Filtering belongs in the backend, not the fronted and should be configured by the instance admin and the individual user. We already have that in the form of moderation tools and blocks. If we wanted arbitrary third parties to dictate what we can see, we could have stayed on reddit.
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            23 hours ago

            There are some legitimate blocks in there to my understanding, the problem is they were/are mixed in with all the random “this hurts my feelings” blocks so it taints the whole thing

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              23 hours ago

              If there were opt in ‘spammers’ and ‘trolls’ lists it would be fine. The main problem is it being opt out and hidden, with it being a combination of those things plus ‘people I don’t like’ being secondary.

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                16 hours ago

                It has more than just list of users, it also has random regex for message contents.

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        23 hours ago

        Ah now I understand, its filtering. I bet it doesn’t warn you about that when you install it… *sigh

        One more UI to ignore, thank you for the clarification.