I’ve been pondering why there seems to be an abundance of options for instances to customize user experiences, while users themselves have limited control over their own preferences. Features like instance blocking and enabling/disabling downvotes can make it challenging to find an instance that aligns perfectly with your preferences. Personally, I already filter out instances based on latency requirements, leaving me with very few options. The introduction of the new URL blocking feature has me concerned that finding an instance I completely like will be impossible. Why aren’t there more user-centric customization features available on Lemmy to address this issue?
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URL blocking is for spam. It’s not like instance blocking and I don’t think you want to filter out spam content yourself.
Hopefully we can see custom user filters too though. I would like to filter out Elon from my life.
What app are you using to access lemmy?
Boost doesn’t have it for comments, but I can easily filter out posts with any word in the title.
Because the devs are working on other stuff (for free, by the way)
Why don’t you help out and add some yourself?
Some of them are paid , they get donation money , and also from the NLNET iirc (which is tax payer money iirc).
Anyway this isn’t how you handle feedback , there is a reason wikipedia has a guideline called assume good faith , because if you are not assuming good faith you are probably assuming bad faith and that makes it difficult for an organisation to function for obvious reasons.
As usual when a comment like yours exists, the feature already exists. In this case, its available only to instance admins.
A better suggestion would be to setup one’s own instance, but that’s not dismissive enough, it seems.
Sorry but “why haven’t the devs given me [thing I want]?” is a very presumptuous way to phrase a question.
They could have asked “Will the admin features [X, Y, Z] become available to users?” with the explanation of why they’d want it.
While I personally think that Lemmy has a problem with users feeling entitled, I don’t think this is an example of that. OP is simply asking for more granular control over their account. What you’re not considering is that English may not be their first language or they’re just not very Google with social queues. We can all benefit from being more tolerant.
Why dont you stop being a prick?
As a general rule it’s the admins that have to deal with legal and technical problems, so the features for admins are a much higher priority for development. Protecting whole instances is more important than user focused features because if instances get taken down that’s a whole bunch of users that need to find a new home.
In the meantime many of the third-party apps can take care of some of those features.
Gotta remember we’re at version 0.19.3. That’s still very much an early access platform with the quirks not quite figured out yet.
