100% agree with this. Its good that we have many options, its good for the ecosystem as a whole.

There’s too much left wing shit on Lemmy and the instance blocks don’t realllly work, I still get responses and see comments from instances I’ve blocked, it just blocks the communities not anything else

Yeah ok. Hopefully this can be improved in future versions of the lemmy software. I think its designed to not show those responses and comments from blocked instances. Are you sure you are looking at the Subscribed view? I dont know this, but maybe the All view will not take blocked instances into account, and the other one will? But i dont know.

I think this depends what you mean with trolls. Some users who are called trolls by other users are not trolls in my opinion. Its just users expressing an opinion that the other user doesnt agree with.

To be a troll, you have to intentionally post things to upset others. If I post my opinion on something and you call me a troll because of it, that means im a troll? No it just means thats what you think about me. Its not a universal opinion that everyone shares.

Users who only post things that upsets others are banned also from lemmy.today. Its not designed to be a safe haven for actual trolls. But it does allow users to have unpopular opinions. The job of the moderator is to know when a user is an actual troll and when he just has an opinion that is not popular. There is a big difference.

Yeah but its interesting that all of these big tech guys are so creepy. Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg… Do they grow them in labs?

That would be amazing to be included there. A true honor.

Yeah I dont believe instance admins should choose those things for their users. There are options for users to block other instances themselves if they want to.

I think for giant instances, perhaps it makes sense, because moderation could become a full time job otherwise, specially if they want to have strict rules what people can say.

But yeah, im old school and I believe in letting users make that choice themselves. Im ok with seeing opinions i dont agree with, and I hope our users are also. :)

Support small instances, the admins really appreciate getting new users, and it keeps the ecosystem healthy. Also it keeps moderation in check. If some instances are being too hard, there are options for users to go to. But only if those smaller instances feel motivated to keep going. So lets support them.

I also agree with you. Its hard right now to know what instances are blocking what. How are users supposed to keep track of this? Its like small islands with different cultures, and a new user have no idea before signing up. Would be nice if there was a place that would describe each instance attitude to moderation and who they are not federating with, and for what reason.

Its not very similar to the default theme, but yeah, it overrides the styles used by the default theme and modifies them with other colors, margins, paddings and gradients.

Yeah I got so much excellent feedback from @Allero@lemmy.today, and so many positive comments on it from others, so I just got the courage to put it as default on the instance. :)

But of course, lets make this theme public in a few weeks, I just need time to clean up the code so it can be improved even more by the community down the line.

Its custom built to make this instance get its own style. Currently its not very maintainable code. Its overrides everywhere and its the result of a lot of testing things back and forth. Im working on cleaning it up and putting it somewhere so others can use it also.

I was thinking of making a light version but that will only happen if the code can be cleaned up first, so its easy to just change colors later.

So with a couple of more weeks, I hope to have a clean code version of it that can also be used in light mode. Then I can share it also. :)