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So to my immense joy, Hexbear has started appearing on the front page again. Instance blocking is not available, and even the regular block feature sometimes fails (on certain communities?) for no clear reason. I've already tried blocking their "DuNk tAnK" and politics sub, it errors in a way that doesn't seem to happen...

To produce plant-based cheeses that feel and taste like dairy cheese, scientists have their sights set on fermentation. In a new research result, University of Copenhagen scientists demonstrate the potential of fermentation for producing climate-friendly cheeses that people want to eat.

Federal effort will focus on marginalized areas in all parts of country and aims to reduce extreme heat and benefit health

No mods listed and the place is getting overrun by drug spam. Is there anyone there?

I’m sure I’ve seen comments indicating that people can do this.

Jacksonville's sheriff says a white gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General store was racially motivated and hated Black people

*or distribution...

‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

Feeling thwarted by the 404, I suddenly remembered there are plenty of curated feeds over in Collections for us to browse. Have updated one of mine to reflect newer communities.

Recently, there's been a pretty serious spam bot on a federated community: https://fedia.io/u/@ThuleanSneed@startrek.website...

You literally can't do it. If you try, you just get an error message. Pretty much anything from hexbear.net is unblockable. Which is really unfortunately, because it is one of the worst instances out there.

Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.

I know Ernest is working on getting ready to update kbin.social but are there any other instances which are faster with the bug fixes and updates?

kbin sounds a lot like kabin, or かびん／花瓶, which means vase in Japanese.

Sometimes when I upload a link it doesn't load properly, it happens no big deal, but then I can't delete these buggy posts and then I end up unintentionally spamming a bunch of duplicates as I try to post again...

I'm coming from kbin. It used to be that when I blocked an instance, I wouldn't see any posts or comments from users on that instance....