That in itself isn’t rule breaking, just annoying, but the instance has communities which are sort of like travel agency bs, with straight up ads for hotels, plane tickets, and other services. I think they must’ve made like 300 posts in two or three hours, so they completely took over the feed.

Wouh, that’s annoying for sure and to me sounds like spam!

So thankful to have the option to both block users and communities. Makes the experience a lot smoother!

I thought of a reason why someone might want to post any issues publicly here in !support instead of doing a report and that is if it is something that is not clearly breaking any rules and a users feels that this might warrant input from others, or a issue that might lead to a bit of back and forth and one wants to be able to expand on reasoning etc. Obviously at the end of the day the final say is with the lemmy.world admins and mods, so we all have to adhere to that while here. But yeah, that came to mind as a reason against reporting a post so wanted to mention it.

You could just report a post from a user of the instance you think should be blocked. Just remember to write a reasoning for the report. To me this seems like the fastest option.

Reports go to your instance admins.

Or you can write a post here in !support@lemmy.world

Correction: Reports go to the mod of the community where the post is located. To get server wide block of another instance then reaching out here in !support should be the way.

Just a sidenote for anyone not aware that the rules that applies at Lemmy.world can be found through the side bar. So read through them and always report posts that you think violates these.

This is my understanding without doing any research on Lemmy specifically and what, if any, differences there is compared to others.

does admin has access all of our data?

Always assume that the answer is Yes. Regardless what you are using within the fediverse.

can he sell the data to some big corporation?

Again, Yes. Buti think they would be breaking their own privacy policy:

Looking at https://lemmy.world/legal and it refers to https://mastodon.world/about where general rules are clearly laid out that is also enforced afaik on lemmy.world. Them linking that page makes me assume that the same privacy policy that is used on mastodon.world also applies here, this can be seen at https://mastodon.world/privacy-policy

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Your public content may be downloaded by other servers in the network. Your public and followers-only posts are delivered to the servers where your followers reside, and direct messages are delivered to the servers of the recipients, in so far as those followers or recipients reside on a different server than this.

To be clear, the admins do not need to sell the information you share publicly, afaik it’s already freely and available in the open to anyone (as mentioned above in the privacy policy) and there is nothing stopping any outside party from scraping this data.

They do need to update https://lemmy.world/legal though asap to make things clear.

This is a concern regardless of instance and the size of the instance. At least in my mind.

Personally I don’t have too much concern right now but if anything happens that changes that then I’ll just leave.

Bill is paid by using donations through open collective and Patreon:

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld

Which is confirmed in their blog post about Lemmy:

Also I started paying for the Lemmy cloud servers from the mastodon.world funds

https://blog.mastodon.world/

So mastodon.world, calckey.world and lemmy.world are all run by ruud and looking at mastodon.world it states they have 3 admins in total. So 2 besides ruud. And i assume the same group is involved in all of these.

This is just what i managed to figure out before joining lemmy.

Also !lemmyworld@lemmy.world might be a good follow.

Good on you for asking and helping out! When you run into unexpected behavior or issues take time to try and back track what you did that caused this, what buttons you tapped etc to get the behavior and when you report it include these steps.

Edit: Also when you open Memmy and select settings and scroll down you have the option to email debug logs. So definetly do that when you run into any issue and include your feedback in the same email.