Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

flashgnash@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 280 points –
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i wish us users could afford such luxury of blocking certain instances on our own.

Allow a user to block an instance #2397

You can contribute, encourage others to contribute, post a bounty or leave a thumbs up, or wait.

Another option is to block communities, you can already do that on your own.

yea, guess i ll wait. for exemple, when i m in lemmygrad (please dont judge me lol) i can see comments from explosive heads users, which unfortunatly, my instance (lemmy grad) is still federated with them, but also i dont wanna block a user from them each time i see one, i dont really wanna hear from them. yea, but this is much bigger than a community, this is a whole instance, hence the question. thought i should be vocal about this feature. i guess i wasnt the first one to suggest. thank you for linking me in to the github page.

i can see comments from explosive heads users, which unfortunatly, my instance (lemmy grad) is still federated with them

https://lemmygrad.ml/instances

https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=lemmygrad.ml

Both see exploding-heads.com blocked by lemmygrad.ml, apparently since 2023-06-15. Are the comments you see older than this? You shouldn't see any e-h activity on lg communities after that date. Or you're viewing the local copy of a lemmygrad community on exploding-heads, but in this case you should only see e-h comments after that date.

I think that functionality will eventually be added when the devs get around to it.