Maybe we should attach a file with a list of communities for each section so users can block/sub to the whole sections at once.

[M4rtineski]

This would require figuring out where to host those files, what tools are available for the job etc. At the very beginning of the directory we could share files with political communities so people could easily block those too.

[chris-y]

We could easily host them in this repo (or a new one if that's preferred). This would also make it easier to feed bestofbot https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/bestofbot/issues/14

Lemmy doesn't have a upload block list option though - is there a tool available which will do that?

[M4rtineski]

Tool for subbing: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12044014

Hopefully blocks are implemented at this point: https://lemmy.world/comment/1764730

Btw, blocks and subs are in profile settings that you export/import so you can always do something yourself to import the list into the exported file to import it back.

[chris-y]

I created a script https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/lemmy-directory/blob/main/scripts/directory_to_json.py which extracts the entire directory to a JSON file. We can easily modify that to create import files if we know the right format.

[M4rtineski]

Cool. Will look into how to do that once I finish organising the current set of communities.

[M4rtineski]

Changed priority of this because I need this soon.

[M4rtineski]

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

[M4rtineski]

From nighed: https://stablenarwhal.github.io/Lemmy-Userdata-Migration/