Except instance blocklists don't really work much, and are too controversial, and some kind of community sourced user blocklist also is far too controversial. Libs blocking tankies, tankies blocking neolibs, so many in the middle blocking neither, or perhaps both I dunno:-P.
While Star Wars fans understand that near a black hole those two concepts begin to converge... and even trade places?
Omg I can just hear that!
Let's see if this can play (nope, I am not smart enough to do that, but here's the link anyway):
You are a treasure to have on the Fediverse, we are fortunate to have you helping so much:-).
Can this really represent Lemmy though, unless you are banned for having offered it? 🫠
How about: "comment removed - has far too many pixels"? 🤡
Fwiw https://lemmy.world/modlog/2 says "reason: Apparent commercial spam", but pruwyben's answer is much better:-)
Fwiw both PieFed and the Tesseract front-end for Lemmy have YouTube embedding. And probably some apps too but I don't know which ones. This is the real dream: you don't even leave the post to watch it, if you want, and the preview pic is just already right there.
YT does not (currently) show ads for those. Also you can switch between videos more readily, if you don't really care about what you are watching and just want to be "entertained" (like a toddler) for 1-3 minutes.
And from YT's standpoint, it boosts their traffic stats, while sucking in the Gen-Z watchers, who until it becomes enshittified can make great use of it.
It is indeed a damn cool name, and yeah I tried to carefully not imply that you did not want to have to solve problems - your asking here is already a sign that you could be a major help to others on that instance that likewise need aid joining communities and such:-). But... "managing" expectations, yeah I would expect to have more issues on the instances running still-beta software (though technically Lemmy itself is all still in beta!?:-P). On the other hand, so many issues running 0.19.8 in particular seems a good sign in general for that version specifically:-).
(1) When you go to the Communities page on your instance and do your search, make absolutely certain that the setting at the top is All, bc the default is Local and therefore it won't show such communities on another instance.
When I do the search for fallout76 that way, I am able to see it: https://leminal.space/search?q=fallout76&type=Communities&listingType=All . But maybe that's because you've already joined it?
Alternately, you can kinda force the community link by placing c/communityname after https://instancename/
(2) Clicking that link (https://leminal.space/c/fallout76@lemmy.world) will show no posts until someone from your instance joins, and even then it can take a few hours. Or more weirdly you could see only old posts but no newer ones. All of that is normal due to how the federation process works, trying to be efficient and only pull in content that someone on your instance has specifically requested.
But give it a few hours and you should be good to go:-).
(3) Being anonymous shouldn't have anything to do with anything. I do note though that your instance is running the latest 0.19.8, which is still in beta. Being on the bleeding edge like that, you should expect to encounter more problems than usual on the Fediverse.
As Blaze mentioned, if you want a more seamless experience on the Fediverse, then you may want to switch to one of the top 20 instances (though I see that sopuli.xyz is likewise running 0.19.8). There is no rush though, so make sure to take time to think about what you want. Fwiw, Lemmy.zip is known for gaming (though it is also running 0.19.8!?:-). In the Settings menu is an account Export & Import pair of buttons that will transfer your subscribed communities and block lists, but note that messages to your old account will not follow you over to the new.
I was literally just thinking about this before reading your comment. It's a natural cycle though no less damaging as a result of being "natural".
Even Trump and Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg are traumatized, and mostly represent symptoms of deeper issues, despite also feeding forward as causes of their own. Though the likes of Putin don't care about traumatized or not but rather only more or less useful for the cause. So things like "fairness" have little to do with anything.
Maybe this means that we need to forgive them - or maybe it means the opposite I have no clue, but one thing I am becoming certain of: we need to figure out first what the most important question is, before we can begin to answer it. Like, is ranked choice voting to be prized so highly that all else is worth being sacrificed in order to attain it? Both the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left seem to want to destroy democracy, so is that what it would take to save it?
In the meantime, all an average person can do is try to be a decent folk - like returning the grocery cart even when it rains. So many people, including some who voted for Trump, want to do that, and it's hard but I have to remember that they are my friends, more so than the Alt-Left that is so vocal here yet would really prefer if democracy was no more despite how many people would die in the switch (and switch to what even? straight to some magical utopia? are plans written up for that even or is this a "trust me bro, I got this" kinda situation?).
And it's even odd to think that the people calling for more "Saint Luigi" literal murders might otherwise be decent people, in other ways. It's REALLY hard to figure out what the most compassionate stance is!
But it's amazing to see how much of it comes down to basic decency: all we can really do at the end of the day is take care of what is right in front of us.
Some interesting facts:
Fast-forward to today, and Lemmy still does not offer the ability to block users from an instance. Or for reports to federate to moderators on remote instances. The pace of development is quite slow, and shows little signs of speeding up. Furthermore, why would those same admins of lemmy.ml be in favor of sharing the same power that they wield on that instance with everyone using this software?
Rust is not a language conducive to making many changes to the codebase. I predict that one year from now there will be little change in the Lemmy software, with people still begging for features that they hoped for two years ago already. To be clear it's not the fault of the developers, but of people having too high expectations and hopes.
So yeah, the OP idea is a good one, but I'll cover that separately and here just wanted to say that the slow pace of new features is by design of the language used, and people must simply get used to that.