Like in how many of their users block instance x
Admins can see everything. That's how a database works.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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It's the blockbox of the instance.
Yes, they own the literal servers you're on. Obviously they can see everything. Just like the admins of any other website in the world.
Can they see blocks of individual users? Can we get a top 10 most blocked, unbanned users?
They can see everything in the database. So yes.
Would it be unethical to publish some novel stats that wouldn't be available to users?
In my opinion, probably yes. If that information being made public is likely to make people feel uncomfortable, then its probably unethical.
Unless they were contacted and gave their consent. That's a lot of unpaid work tho.
Yes, indeed that’s a lot of work. My block list is looooooooooooooong.
Not only do I believe this to be ethical, but I demand a ticker on the top of every page that alerts us every time someone blocks something. Imagine just seeing "Rickyrigatoni@retrolemmy.com has blocked rickyrigatoni@lemmy.ml" five hundred times because I keep blocking and unblocking my alts to annoy the entire fediverse. My utopia...
Yes, you can see it in action here: https://feddit.uk/post/32410792
Oh, I was hoping it would be one of the spicier posters.
As a solo instance owner, yes that's correct; I do see which instances I block.
… shit, I might be about to stand up my own instance
Ive been cobsidering it for a while as well, I have my own domains and a server. Will probs do it when I get paid and can afford a few HDDs
Get SSDs. Lemmy is heavy as fuck. I wish Piefed had existed when I set up my instance.
Both, nearly always advantageous to use SSDs as a cache pool with the heavy storage on HDDs.
No way, the admin of a site can see stuff?
Meh, I just blocked all the porn. Don’t want that coming up while scrolling at work!
I just disabled all NSFW stuff
That actually does a pretty great job of getting rid of the explicit stuff. (Thanks for tagging your stuff, porn magazines!)
It does nothing for the just as NSFW anime magazines.
Oh right, I just outright blocked these instances lol
Job 1: block all the anime comms.
Yeah, yes that’s great, over there please. Thank you. Over there.
Christ there’s so many. . .
lemmy.world federates nsfw instances?
Unfortunately, there's a lot of NSFW that's not porn that I do want to see. Typically just some text.
On the other hand, spam bots seem to always mark their posts NSFW for some reason.
Why do you hate fun?
I don’t! My workplace hates fun.
I mean, it's free and probably faster to just make an extra account that you don't use at work if that's your only issue 🤷
Well, yeah, but I’m not going to talk openly about my porn account :p
Well shit's on them. I don't block instances. I mentally scorn them.
I don’t block instances.
I tend to block instances that block me, because I find it annoying to see an instance on the front page that I'm expected to look at but not allowed to interact with.
Fair enough. In that case, the fact that you block them should come as no surprise to them.
Unlike me! No instance shall know whom I place my scorn on! No instance! Never! Muaha ha ha ha ha!!! Will they block me on account of these posts? Well now I have information on some fragile administrators! Haa ha ha haha haaa!
You're getting blocked from entire instances?
If it wasn't the whole instance, it was one mod on a bunch of subs adding me to communities I'd never visited.
On which account? Not the one you're posting from
Edit: oh, or maybe your modlog just didn't federate back far enough
Since Lemmy is part of the Fediverse (public), I just figured everything was public such as votes and blocks.