I have been looking through a long thread on another instance where a few users have been trying to convince that instance to defederate from Exploding Heads - because they do not want to see the content posted on Exploding Heads.
I have thought long and hard about how to please these people. They do have the option to individually block Exploding Heads communities or users, but they either do not know how to or simply do not want to.
In the end I realized if I ban those specific users requesting defederation from Exploding Heads - they will not see any content from Exploding Heads and therefore will not be offended by it. (Truth be told I am not sure if some of these users have really visited our site or interacted with our users).
So today I have banned those users with the explanation that they have said they do not want to see Exploding Heads content. If any of those users wish to be unbanned in the future, all they have to do is say so and I will happily unban them.
These users are not being banned in order to censor them, but to help them achieve what they have been requesting - to not see Exploding Heads content.
I hope you all find this a fair and reasonable action - if not let me know.
Sorry, but comments you make on defederated instances are only available to you and other instance users. No one from beehaw will be able to see them. You’d be posting on sh.it, not beehaw.
That’s exactly what I’m saying…
The goal is that sh.it don’t have to deal with EH users, EH users can still comment “here” if they feel like it, we just don’t see their post because we’re registered to an instance that’s defederated from theirs.
That’s not how it works. It’s only visible to you and you alone.
I just checked, it’s visible to everyone on your own instance
Really? My testing has shown otherwise, though that was on burggit, which is different. Do you have any links?
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/267535
The thread is in beehaw and I can only see the comments by sh.it users
Oh, interesting, I take my point back then.
Though it still doesn’t show up in search results from this instance.