Yeah, don’t donate to the cringe tankie asshole. Just donate to the cringe transphobic tankie asshole instead.

Let’s just put it this way: lemmy.ml is “special”. You are correct that tankies have zero interest in receiving reports from the Western world, but the more democratically-aligned portions of the Threadiverse would like for work to be distributed rather than centralized into one authoritarian instance that controls everything.

However, this is only one of the many ways in which the Lemmy software does not perfectly align with the interests that most people worldwide would like to see from it. But… it’s their software, so they can work on or not work on various aspects of it as they see fit?

Like there is a modlog but no mod mail, no notification about someone’s content being censured, no ability to appeal or ask questions after a ban, unless you DM every mod in the entire community individually (bc the modlog simply says that the action was taken by a “mod” - so how else to reach the one that did it?). Highly ironically (and almost hilariously?), Lemmy is somehow even more authoritarian than Reddit, in these respects!!🤣🤪 Put another way, it offers enormous freedoms to instance admins (which Reddit explicitly does not allow) and moderators, but not so much to the people at the end user level.

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I am not sure why you would need that myself? The entire model of using PieFed can be different from how using Lemmy. Using the latter you mostly end up having to use All and then block just tons and tons of communities that you don’t want to see (and then keep doing that over and over again as new ones get created), but PieFed’s capability to use categories of communities and user-customizeable and shareable Feeds opens up while new vistas of control.

You can, for instance, simply unsubscribe from let’s just spitball here by saying all of those huge major communities from Lemmy.World (but better than that, you could keep some without having to deal with such broad brush strokes as “all” or “none”), yet you can still view content from those communities anytime you want to, in the category Feeds. This makes the Subscribed Feed on your main landing page actually fully usable to find content most of the time, unlike on Lemmy where attempting to do that gets so difficult.

Plus there’s tons of other filtering options as well, including by keywords (here too there are options to filter out not only “All” or “None” of the specified keyword, but there’s another option to allow just “Some” of that content through, at a low level), or hide controversial content based on number of downvotes (I have this disabled, but it’s there for anyone who needs it!), and so on.

So you can have what you want without needing to fully “block” them, as you would have had to have done on Lemmy, where the only available options are basically yes or no, yet on PieFed there are so many additional nuances possible, that it doesn’t really make sense to implement a new feature for something that we all routinely do anyway, but in a manner that is fully customized to our individual needs? But e.g. someone could make a shared Feed that accomplishes essentially this goal, so that everyone could benefit from that endeavor.

Does any of this make sense? Having used Lemmy for years now, I think I see why you are asking about it, but also knowing PieFed well, I see why he might say that you don’t “need” it, given everything else that would also accomplish that goal instead, and in a less “harsh” manner than a full block (but ofc feel free to block whatever communities you want to as well - a year ago the latter feature did not exist yet, an oversight, but it absolutely works just fine nowadays).