It’s becoming increasingly necessary to be able to tell what instance a community is being posted to.
If you use the large view for posts, rather than the compact view, then you will see the community name along with its instance.
Ah. Not worth giving up compact view, IMO, but good to know.
No worries, looking at the compact view there seems to be plenty of space to include the instance with the community name…🤞🏻
Not the dev, but i am a dev, so I’ll just say that this will be a challenge with longer names.
Why does this matter? If it’s a community about cisco routers, who cares what instance you’re seeing? It’s still the cisco community.
Think decentralized.
I can think of plenty of reasons. Lately with the hexbear nonsense, there are tons of seemingly normal sounding communities that you might click on and not realize that you’re being fed propaganda without even knowing it.
Also I saw a community called spoilers yesterday but it was on an instance dedicated to magic the gathering, so I guess the community was dedicated to talking about spoilers from within the game itself. But if all you see is spoilers, it wouldn’t be obvious at all. There are tons of examples of things like this happening when instances are specific. If there’s a community all about sports but it’s hosted on an instance from Australia, that might not be relevant to someone who isn’t from Australia.
More importantly, as with any other feature request, this should be made as an option. If you don’t like it, then don’t enable the option. People that would get benefit from it could choose to enable it. Win/win. I have no idea why anyone would ever argue for optional features to ever not be added. As far as the space restriction goes, it’s already an option to be able to see individual users full instance name, I don’t know why this would take up any more space. It should be exactly the same amount.
have you discovered our lord and savior the block button?
The point is OP can’t see the instance names to know to block
He doesn’t want to give up compact view on posts, with large is fine.
In that case, adding a “block instance” button would resolve that specific issue. I use Connect, and I just click “block instance” if I see something from an instance I don’t like. No need for me to even see the name of the instance, connect knows it so it just uses that when blocking.
It would be nice, I know lemmy is supposedly working on support for this, voyager may be waiting for that
Same communities but different instances mean different rules to follow. It’s the double edged sword of decentralization. Knowing which instance you’re in at a glance will let you know if you can criticize Star Trek Discovery without being banned.
are the rules really all that different, though, really?
Yes they are.
Instances have various moderation styles and audiences.
I like to know what I’m getting myself into.
well if you find an instance you dislike you can simply block it.
Does voyager support blocking instances now?
But that’s not really my point anyway. I don’t mind the instances. I just like knowing which I’m entering.
i don’t use voyager but i would think it would be a standard feature. maybe not implemented yet.
you aren’t entering an instance so much as you are reading a post from another instance mirrored to your instance.
I’ve only heard of Connect and Sync supporting it so far.
And I know I’m not technically entering the instance. I wasn’t meaning so literally. I am participating in a community with its own moderation though, even if technically a copy.
I see. I am sure there will be greater support for blocking instances in the future in more apps.
My developer spidey-senses (I am a web developer) tell me that the name of the instance may still be an issue becausesomepeopleliketopurchaselengthlydomainnames.com. If that’s the case, maybe a comprimise could be to show the instance icon (assuming that’s a thing) next to the community with an option to click to get the full instance name? just spit ballin’
I don’t actually want to block any instances. I just like knowing which “technology” community I’m in. I’ll find different comments in each.
