I personally prefer the Piefed platform

What community are you talking about? thebrainbin.org is kbin or mbin (hence the name), and lemmy.cafe is lemmy (also reflected in the hostname). I don’t see any piefed variants.

Lemmy software is older and more stable than m/kbin. I am surprised at how many bugs litter Lemmy considering its age, but it’s still more usable than m/kbin.

I personally prefer the Piefed platform, but honestly I have not been active recently. We should probably consolidate to whichever community is more active.

I was browsing a Lemmy instance (beehaw.org). What is less hostile than that?

Browse less hostile media outlets

Ugh. I usually downrank/block paywall sites in Kagi.

Interesting to learn that the Google caches have the full article. I wonder if this needs to be a website or if there could just be a browser plugin to redirect you to the cache... 🤔

Do you mean that a browser cannot fool a web server without using AI? Can you explain in more detail how the web service detects a client’s use of AI?

You mean a browser with AI features built in? Sounds useful!

I chose to make use of the algorithm without it using me. there's this lovely website called https://everynoise.com that uses data from Spotify and, other than letting you browse through every genre listed out there and listen to examples, has got a search box that gets you to an artist's page with their chronological discography (or at least parts of it that are on Spotify), and shows a "fans also like' list of artists, which serves as a nice starting point for exploration.
I also like how it shows which other album every song is featured on, so you can tell whether you're missing out on something or not when you're obtaining an artist's discography and skipping the singles or EPs.

@activistPnk@slrpnk.net for king! 👑

I don’t have much detail because I don’t actually subscribe to any communities on instances that I block. I just subscribed to linux@lemmy.world as an experiment and it was permitted. But I see no posts. Perhaps I will just see posts in the future going forward. Or maybe it just means I can post there and only see threads I start. I don’t know.

I’m all for decentralisation, but that instance blocklist is actually ridiculous.

Obviously you are stuck in a contradiction. If you are truly looking to partake in the decentralised portion of the fedi, the blocklist is of course spot-on accurate -- and even a bit overly minimal (in my case, I also cut out non-CF nodes where the number of active users is greater than 2 standard deviations above the mean).

If you are looking to reach all content possible without regard to ethics or digital rights, then yes, the blocklist would be ridiculous in that context.

If you lack the discipline to go whole-hog, just start with blocking the worst (lemmyworld) and progress from there.

Threadiverse is way too small for such sweeping blocklist at the moment.

You may be overlooking some resources. The decentralised fedi is plenty big if you know where to look. Lemmyverse.net has a quite comprehensive dataset. There are plenty of communities with the centralised ones filtered out. But it helps if you know SQL. I escape LV UI and have my own script filter out Cloudflare junk.

It’s very important to realise that the instance blocks do not block people. You will still see posts from LW users. And you can still even reach LW communities and even subscribe to them if you want. The only effect these blocks have is to prioritise decentralised communities in searches and in the timeline.

Can you explain how this works? If the instance is blocked, how can one subscribe to communities hosted on it? Would it just be necessary to find the communities through a user's post rather than in the Communities search, or...?