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    1 year ago

    Does /d/ block an instance?

    I think there is a misunderstanding in the kbin community.
    /d/ blocks a domain, A domain is not an instance.
    But i’m not shure what /d/ blocks or not. As far as I know it’s what’s between the bracket’s after a post ()

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      1 year ago

      You’re right that it’s a bit trickier than I thought. It blocks the shared content: images and other content hosted at lemmy.world can be blocked from https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.world/ , but it will not include links to external sites, nor will it work for text posts. Blocking lemmynsfw.com worked fine for me, but that’s of course because it’s an image-heavy service.

      Whether or not it will work for threads.net off the bat I guess then depends on how Threads interacts with the fediverse; whether it merely shares a link content stored locally, or whether it distributes the content in its entirety.

      I updated my post to clarify!