It’s already a standard on the Fediverse! and I guess on other places too
I think you should be able to block a bot from a community exactly as a user.
If you’re comfortable with Python, you can try this out: Lemmy.py
I don’t think there’s a way of doing this automatically at the moment.
With Lemmy’s API you could set up a bot that takes care of listing all the local communities on a remote server and then searching them from yours, which would make them appear in your search results.
But if you want the publications of this remote community to federate with your server, you need to have a local user subscribed to it.
Even though this account is new because it was created a few days ago with the server I’ve set up (lemmy.cat), I’ve been on Lemmy for a while and have contributed to its development (documentation and translation).
I’d love to be able to help moderate one of the most important communities, not only in terms of the number of people, but also in terms of what it represents.
It seems that for some of them, it was Reddit that put them back to public rather than the mods. https://lemmy.cat/post/324 https://lemmy.cat/post/463
French telecoms tried the same a few years ago…
https://news.retiolus.net/readable_content?url=https://www.universfreebox.com/article/534255/faire-payer-netflix-youtube-et-twitch-pour-lutilisation-des-reseaux-si-on-veut-nous-donner-de-largent-on-est-toujours-daccord-declare-xavier-niel