Started out on the fmhy.ml just prior to the .ml debacle. On lemmy.world now, but they have just started banning piracy communities. The new fmhy instance, of course, has already died before I got to try it.

sigh Married pasty male looking for lemmy instance that:

Has some decent uptime / Reliable / Not on a fly by night top level domain
Hates Nazi's and doesn't hesitate to ban, block and defederate such crap
Tolerant of piracy communities and federations
Oh, and will let me see comments in the Technology community. That isn't working for me here.

Suggestions welcome.

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[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

dbzer0 is not blocked from lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/instances.

So while you are technically correct that you can publicly see who is blocking who by looking at their instance list, your answer isn't relevant to the question of blocked communities where there hasn't been total instance-blocking.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to see an instance's blocked communities except by reading/searching their modlog.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah sorry. You're right, of course. I saw the word 'fediverse' and responded without really thinking.

I read that even subscribers on lemmy.world might not even notice that the community is blocked, so there's not much hope for the rest of us.

[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world users no longer see it in all/community search results, and if trying to navigate to the Lemmy.world url for the community specifically (like this: https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) they just get an error.

So the only way they would discover that communities are blocked is if they absolutely know the community actually exists by visiting the foreign instance.

The only other way I've discovered you can see what communities an instance has blocked is by parsing through the public modlog.