he/him/his
This appears to be related to kiwi farms?
It was originally developed by Kiwi Farms when they were running their own Mastodon instance.
They built this tool because they were being massively defederated (for obvious reasons) but eventually gave up and closed their Mastodon instance.
Since then, other instances apparently not related to Kiwi Farms (but usually still that kind of “free speech” ones) have reinstantiated the service.
It also has a slur immediately on the page you linked
Oh, yes, I haven’t seen that.
fedi-block-api already existed and works with any fediverse instance, not only Lemmy.
Meta has practically unlimited resources. They will make access to the fediverse fast with their top tier servers.
Well, that hasn’t been my experience so far, and they are not even federating yet :-D
I don’t know so much about Lemmy. In kbin, you just search for the user address and it will show in the results.
That doesn’t seem to be the case for Lemmy though and I don’t know if Lemmy has any way to make search work this way, but you can always manually build the user profile URL in Lemmy the way I did: <lemmy_instance>/u/<user address>
You can follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy and Kbin.
https://kbin.social/u/@gargron@mastodon.social
https://lemmy.ml/u/gargron@mastodon.social
Then wait until you find that you can follow Lemmy/kbin communities from Mastodon and comment on Lemmy/kbin posts from your Mastodon account 🤭
I have no idea how it works under the hood, but I guess there is some caching given how fast results are retrieved.