It's pretty awful for an average Lemmy user, because you can get cut off from communities you already subscribed to, without any notification! So you might post and comment without realizing that your content is not getting published, even though you and your local instance still see it.

The user experience would be improved by getting a warning if you try to contribute to a community in this case. And also your subscriptions should show warnings about not working anymore, and those should come up as notifications on the account.

femboys!

But that's not really a full solution, because instances seem to block instances on whims (recently beehaw blocked two other ones suddenly). And users don't even get warnings or notifications about it when posting or reading cached content...

Getting the blur disabled should be a user setting though in the web UI without installing anything.

Great work! User preferences diverge - I wanted "no blur", but also "no auto expand" for myself.

While having this in my instance of choice is great, Lemmy as a whole would benefit from improving the default webui with things like these settings. Where could users pitch ideas like this?

You say that as if the blocks are a known factor. They are not easily visible to users, and instances can block others on a whim like beehaw did to some others very recently.

Worst of all, when users had subscriptions and connections active from a time when there wasn't yet a block in place, they don't even get warnings or notifications when trying to post or comment? Subscriptions don't give warnings either?

Unless it's blocked...

So much this. Defederation is a catastrophic issue for an average user in its current form, as the interactions fail totally silently.

Give us simple but informative warnings on reading threads, warnings when trying to post, warnings when trying to subscribe, and warnings when our subscriptions become defunct. Then the user can make informed decisions about either looking for new communities, or maybe moving to a different instance.

Ty for sharing ❤ edit: Whoops just realised it wasn't OC. Still great tho!

lovely. More pls 😁

On my phone only worked via Chrome browser (not via sync or samsung internet), give it a try