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Request: User Moderation Tools - Mute/Block Lists (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a big ask and maybe something bigger than just the Voyager app itself. However, I would like to see Lemmy have the same type of user level moderation tools as BlueSky. BlueSky allows users to subscribe to mute/block lists for misinformation and other types of unfavorable content that people can subscribe to. I feel that having these types of lists on Lemmy would be a great tool for preventing Lemmy from being overrun by bots and misinformation in the future. BlueSky has the misinformation blocking list enabled by default for all users as well, with the ability to adjust the settings for specific categories.

I’m sorry if this is the wrong place to request such a big feature, but I feel that such a feature would be a core part of helping to safeguard the Fediverse for the future.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you for your reply! That makes sense that it would be more the wider Lemmy to look into it.

Thank you for clarifying this, I was not aware that the Fediverse put pressure on instances to moderate or risk defederation, but that does make sense.

My worry was long term risks for Federated spaces such as if bad actors climbed up to admin or moderator roles, which I have seen happen on Reddit even for big name subs. Although in those cases, it doesn’t guarantee that block/mute lists would be helpful. Your comment does give me hope though since even if one of the bigger instances was taken hold of by bad actors, it could be defederated by the rest and other new instances could take its place which are not operated by bad actors.

I agree that defederation is a powerful tool. I don’t think those outside of Lemmy know a lot about this yet as an added benefit of the Fediverse system. I had a difficult time articulating just how Lemmy and the Fediverse was a better long term system compared to Reddit since I really liked the block/mute list idea from BlurSky which was not on Lemmy. But your comment really puts it into perspective of how we can keep this space thriving.