So I’ve been attempting to block communities I don’t want to see on my main feed, but it’s pretty much impossible to do these days because the communities get mirrored on so many different instances that when you block one single community 5 times, there are still 3 more versions on different instances with the exact same crap. Block them? There’s still more!
This site is rapidly becoming completely useless, the way I’ve been using it before.
I’m still new to Lemmy, but I’m not understanding the point of a community mirroring on different instances. If you’re on one instance, like sh.itjust.works, I thought it’d be discoverable on all the other Lemmy instances. I would never see a point in creating multiple instances of the same community if one of mine were discoverable by All.
Sometimes it’s just historical
!android@lemdro.id and !android@lemmy.world have been coexisting for years.
I’ve reached out to the mods of the LW one a few times, they were not interested in consolidating.
Well, if you block one instance itself in entirety, you can still access some of the communities on other instances, so there is a fairly useful purpose there for some people. Also, the comment sections can take a different tone depending on the community which uses that instance.
To get around people blocking them.
People block communities because the mods will shadowban them from the entire instance.