Well, I just made hobbit.world and intend to only have Tolkien related communities there. So block away if that’s not your thing. However, the only way to block an instance is to defederate and that’s kind of harsh. Hopefully the feature of blocking communities by instance is added.

Actually, clicking those links actually works! Hooray!

I was under the impression that you were supposed to be able to search for “!hobbit_art@hobbit.world” in the community search bar and find things there. Now that I know it works, I’ve found that simply modifying the community url also works. So going to: https://lemmy.world/c/hobbit_art@hobbit.world actually jumps me right to it.

So, looks like it was already working. Thanks!

Awesome! I was hoping this would be possible. I plan to host my own instance hobbit.world and would need to migrate everything.

Also, I’ll defederate any corporate instances. No need to encourage bad actors.

No different than email. That’s why domains should be displayed in clients for users.

Well then, I unironically want that!

Too much arguing in discussion forums and not enough relaxed fun.

Every user on threads has something in common. They were stupid enough to join threads.

I’m depriving myself of nothing by defederating that mess.

Can we use ai to judge emotional content of threads so I can get recommendations for threads where people are relaxed and happy?

Absolutely. Gonna set up my own Lemmy instance so I can defederate any corporate instance. If other people want to accept their smallpox blankets, that’s on them.