The obvious reason, which you’ve probably guessed, is that I want to block the tankie trio and not interact in their communities. I would however like to interact with .ml users since I don’t want to reinforce the echo chamber the admins are building.
it doesn’t really make sense to implement a new feature
Here’s the thing, the ability to block instances is already implemented. It currently gives you the option to fully block the instance (comms and users) or block just users. I want to block just comms, and given the existing feature set it can’t be much more complicated than adding an extra option to that list and a couple of extra conditions in the filter. Hardly a huge programming task.
Rimu was pretty clear in his response to my request that he did not agree with my intended usage model, and as such would not implement it, despite it being a simple change. I have no idea why he gets ideologically insistent on random stuff, but I’ve heard from others I trust that he’s done it on other topics on occasion.
To a lesser extent, I would like to block other instances, especially foreign language and porn ones. Blocking each comm as they appear is a never ending process.
Probably. The entire interaction just rubbed me the wrong way, it had a very ‘my way or the highway’ vibe to it. He also didn’t bother continuing the conversation past the original reply despite me being polite.
Well I mentioned how you can accomplish that now already - just not subscribe to those communities, or use Feeds that incorporate them. I suppose it’s a hard job to make an entire Threadiverse platform so I can only guess what underlying reasons Rimu may have for not wanting to implement the model you described to streamline that process.
You’re free to dig through my history if you’re feeling particularly curious. I’m not saying anything controversial or slinging any accusations around, I see no reason to waste my time digging through my own comment history.
To be fair, I wasn’t intimating there that you were - it’s just people can’t really comment without the thread. And I did consider having a look but you have 3,000+ comments.
The obvious reason, which you’ve probably guessed, is that I want to block the tankie trio and not interact in their communities. I would however like to interact with .ml users since I don’t want to reinforce the echo chamber the admins are building.
Here’s the thing, the ability to block instances is already implemented. It currently gives you the option to fully block the instance (comms and users) or block just users. I want to block just comms, and given the existing feature set it can’t be much more complicated than adding an extra option to that list and a couple of extra conditions in the filter. Hardly a huge programming task.
Rimu was pretty clear in his response to my request that he did not agree with my intended usage model, and as such would not implement it, despite it being a simple change. I have no idea why he gets ideologically insistent on random stuff, but I’ve heard from others I trust that he’s done it on other topics on occasion.
Can you not just manually block the communities from those instances as you see them?
To a lesser extent, I would like to block other instances, especially foreign language and porn ones. Blocking each comm as they appear is a never ending process.
Probably. The entire interaction just rubbed me the wrong way, it had a very ‘my way or the highway’ vibe to it. He also didn’t bother continuing the conversation past the original reply despite me being polite.
Well I mentioned how you can accomplish that now already - just not subscribe to those communities, or use Feeds that incorporate them. I suppose it’s a hard job to make an entire Threadiverse platform so I can only guess what underlying reasons Rimu may have for not wanting to implement the model you described to streamline that process.
You don’t have to guess, he explicitly stated why, as I mentioned
Well without having a link to that thread, we’d have to guess.
You’re free to dig through my history if you’re feeling particularly curious. I’m not saying anything controversial or slinging any accusations around, I see no reason to waste my time digging through my own comment history.
To be fair, I wasn’t intimating there that you were - it’s just people can’t really comment without the thread. And I did consider having a look but you have 3,000+ comments.
Sorry, it sounded like you were calling me out there. Yeah, I’m not really expecting anything, just having conversation.
Yeah, hence why I’m not eager to dive in either lol.