FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@debacle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>debacle</span></a></span> </p><p>Just yesterday the following exchange happened on the snarfed/bridgy-fed <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Github</span></a>, </p><p>Here: <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/878" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/</span><span class="invisible">issues/878</span></a> </p><p>Me: "I am not an instance admin. I can only block those domains which return a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>-compatible domain name from my search.</p><p>I will also note that "bsky.brid.gy" does not return any response from the Server search page at FediDB, here: <a href="https://fedidb.org/network" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fedidb.org/network</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>"</p><p>Ryan Barrett, in response: "...if Mastodon only lets you do it after you've found an existing user on that domain, then you're right, you can't block it as a user yet. If so, that's definitely an unfortunate surprise.</p><p>He continues: "The Mastodon docs don't explain this very much ... but you might be right. If so...ugh"</p><p>"that's definitely an unfortunate surprise"</p><p>"if so...ugh"</p><p>No, I *am* right</p><p>I block instances every day on Mastodon</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BridgyFed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BridgyFed</span></a> developer himself doesn't even understand how <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DomainBlocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomainBlocks</span></a> work</p><p>But that's the solution we mere mortals are supposed to use?</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@pulkomandy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pulkomandy</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PureResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PureResearch</span></a></p>