It’s not not hard at all on PieFed: click the username, click More and it says Block that user as the second option down.

Blocking an entire instance takes more clicking, but is also fairly rare so that makes sense. The real trick there is that you need to get to the instance page, and that is easiest by picking a user from it and clicking their instance name - which is in smaller font size, but again this is fairly rare so that makes sense to me. Once you get to e.g. https://piefed.social/instance/lemmy.ml, then you simply click “Block” to never see posts from users on that instance again! The trick of course being that you have to click a user then click an instance to be able to see that button in the first place.

Although that “Block” button was called something different a month ago, when it said “block all users from [instancename]”, and perhaps a few months from now it will again look different? That could legitimately be confusing for people.

On the other hand, Lemmy refuses to provide this functionality at all, no matter how many buttons you click, so having to go through 2 pages (user then instance) is not so difficult compared with the impossibility of doing that on Lemmy!:-P

Totally not bitching about hivemind this or that but…

Yes you are:-). And it’s valid, and worse than that, most of Lemmy is an outright echo chamber, where mods often remove viewpoints that contrast with their own. Some corners of Lemmy even seem like outright founts of disinformation.

The left eats its own. Moral purity beatings will continue until morale improves. Meh, it’s social media, which devolves into a race to the lowest common denominator. It is far easier to give easy answers claiming to already be correct than to e.g. admit that we do not know everything (or even something) - far easier to chime in and speak rather than listen first before forming a firm opinion, to many sources and many sides. All I can add here is that (1) beware of unearned knowledge, and (2) those who seek the Truth, REALLY, will manage to find it. Almost certainly not on Lemmy though, for these aforementioned reasons 🤪 - this is “social media”, a place for people to vomit up their emotions among like-minded individuals in order to circle-jerk one another off, but people may want to get their actual “news” elsewhere (sadly, even Reddit does a far better job of this, bc that is where people post primary content and if you want to know something, then you must go to where the content is - the network effect is strong, but real).

I will give you two guesses:-)

Yes I meant the on-site one developed by Reddit, but agreed that the centralized nature lends itself towards searching by Google.

Although the other way opens up a huge can of worms since every large, general-purpose instance will - due to the nature of how the ActivityPub protocol works - have basically all of the content of the entire Threadiverse. Or as near to that as it works for a first approximation anyway, e.g. someone deciding to index all content appearing on “Lemmy.World” would get all the memes, movie discussions, etc., missing chiefly things like piracy and anarchy and other things that LW has decided to ban. It won’t be “correct” in the sense of attribution to the OP, but once someone found their way to the content housed on LW they are but a click away from getting to its original source anyway. So from that standpoint, Google indexing I would naively have thought would not be all that difficult? Except for the increasingly niche content that isn’t federated with the largest instances, which is perhaps desirable anyway to not expose mainstream normies to content calling for e.g. actual murder in response to world events (such as occurs routinely on e.g. Hexbear).

A safer, sanitized version of the Threadiverse that is searchable by anyone works to all of our advantage, I would believe?

Yeah anything that involves comments doesn’t work so well - either them specifically or the combination of them and posts. And tbf it does retrieve the results of the query, it is only the sort options that fail miserably.

I’ve used Lemmy now for >2 years and the excuse that “it’s still in development” has very much worn thin when no changes at all have been made to this or so many other issues with it.

At least the search function is still better than Reddit’s! (Obligatory and reflexive fuck spex:-P)

Meta did try to make “Threads”, but (a) it failed miserably and (b) use of that term on Lemmy predates Meta trying to steal it. We don’t need to let them define us! And all the more so if there’s no better word - the next runner up in polls iirc is Forumverse, but people vastly prefer Threadiverse.:-)

Welcome fellow human! Ah… I mean “kid”, yes, we are just going to kill all sentient lifeforms “kidding” around here, certainly nothing for the authorities to get involved in, move along! :-P

A true Fedizen right here. Also Threadizen?

I need to stop mentioning flarum, but every time I do someone chimes in with “but it’s coming soon™!” So I just say what’s listed in !fediverse@piefed.social as if that were somehow official or something:-P.

Okay but don’t forget about the PieFed memes community!! !piefed_promo@piefed.social

Example post:

I have been using “Pie-heads”, b/c we are just crazy enough to make that work! :-P

And the network of Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin (+ nodeBB + flarum) as the “Threadiverse”, distinct from the wider Fediverse that also includes Mastodon, PixelFed, etc.

Tbf ActivityPub is the name of the protocol, and Fediverse is the name of the network, though is too generic so many of us have taken to calling us the “Threadiverse”, for threaded-based conversational format (Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed + nodeBB + flarum), as distinct from the user-centric Mastodon, the image-based Pixelfed, video-based Loops (not federated yet iirc), etc. Notably though, while it is not so easy, people can send messages between these e.g. from Mastodon to Lemmy (or PieFed) and vice versa.

Threadiverse = the subset of the Fediverse based on threaded conversations, applies to Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, also nodeBB and somewhat flarum

How people will see us then:

Uh oh, I now have a problem: I cannot keep up with remembering all the new features added!? Oh well, I am very pleased to have this issue:-). (\s bc there are Release Notes)

I figured that you would be! :-)

Although to be clear, searching for content is not something that I do daily or even weekly, so personally I consider it much lower in prioritization than other feature requests, e.g. a comment reply has a Preview option but a top-level comment to a post does not (that button does not appear), notifications is still a bit wonky, particularly not interacting well with the newer feature that loads comments (when there is a larger number of them?) only after loading the post, and then by doing so fails to traverse to where the notification link was aiming to take me to, etc.

Though I suppose others may consider it higher priority, especially newer people evaluating PieFed, and probably working on the search back-end may be a lot more fun!? :-P

It is always nice to see new things coming to PieFed. This is the only software giving me any hope for social media right now:-).

Ooh (and tagging @mnmalst@lemmy.zip), this post seems very relevant in that community: Lemmy/old Reddit styles.

I don’t think so, here is the list of them (accessible for someone without a PieFed account, although for someone with an account it is under Settings -> Theme, change the dropdown then click Save settings, currently no way that I know of to test one out before saving): https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/templates/themes