1. it’s entirely-possible that a filesystem-corruption has happened, destroying some settings by bitrot.

2. it is entirely-possible that there is a new bug in the server-instance, after an update ( don’t know if there’s been any update to its OS or to its lemmy-server code )

3. it is entirely-possible that some attack is compromising its function ( statistically it’d happen, sooner or later )

4. There is a fundamental flaw in the reddit system of “organizing” subreddits, & the replication of that flaw throughout the fediverse:

ALL users have to keep wasting time blocking stuff that we’ve already blocked, because there’s no hierarchy-of-communities.

I don’t have any ability to block the entire Gaming category, & then never see anything more in it.

Same with Hentai & Furry porn, same as AstralPath@lemmy.ca mentioned.

EVERYBODY has to keep “putting out fires”, endlessly, because the architecture prevents the right-answer from correcting-the-problem.

I’ve no problem with multi-inheritence hierarchy ( X-Plane ought be in Aviation, and in Simulation, and in Gaming ), but to sabotage the whole fucking world’s effort/resources, forever, to protect non-hierarchy is retarded.

I’d re-structure the fediverse so that some ML worked at sorting-out where every community belonged, & where it was unambiguous, let that stand.

Then people could block categories of stuff, & that’d be done.

I’ve blocked sooo many communities, that I’ve no idea if the ones which I see today were previously-blocked, or whether they’re just ones I hadn’t blocked yet.

but forcing all people to endlessly waste effort on that, when it should be category-by-category unless the person in-question wants finer-granularity control, that’s insanity.

Insanity which has been architected-into the fediverse’s servers.

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