There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they’re very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I’ve been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?
There’s a PR for it. Hopefully we get it on the next update.
Cool!
Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.
Well that’s disappointing.
That’s awesome! This is much needed.
Connect for lemmy let’s you do thus as well. User, Community, or instance.
Through sync for lemmy, you can filter out a whole instance.
Not yet, someone requested this feature and I would like it to to block the NSFW porn instances. I do have NSFW enabled but I still see pictures of SFW girls in my feed from NSFW instances and I would like to just block that stuff from those adult only instances.
I not for lemmy.world blocking or deferating instances in general. But this feature gives the user the choice to block instances while others can allow content from instsnces to flow into their feed if they wish.
Connect lets you block whole instances
I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.
It’s ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.
Will blocking an instance also block all their users?
I use connect, and any posts from a user in a blocked instance still pops up with a message saying what instance they’re on and that it’s blocked, but I can click on it to reveal the comment.
That’s probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.
Yup, I’d like that.
I don’t usually want to block entire instances, but when I do, it’s usually because of a few bad apples. If I can tell a conversation has some merit to it, I’ll want to read it, even if it’s from an instance worth a large amount of bad apples.
So yeah, let me search for communities in blocked instances, reveal comments from posters in blocked instances, etc. In other words, let me opt in to seeing content I’ve blocked if I specifically request it
While I’m upset that OP doesn’t want to see hexbear posts, this is actually a good idea. It’s practically impossible to block an instance’s communities one by one. I just want to be able to filter them out from the “All” view. I have no issues with individual users’ comments showing up. Federation is awesome but I’d like to have the tools to customize “All” to my liking. (edit: Alternatively consider adding another customizable view mode next to subscribed/local/all)
Also please consider the suggestion posted here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3744501
That seems like a pretty cool idea - though I do think there would also need to be a push for mobile apps to support a similar concept. While I personally don’t, I am sure there are plenty of people who only browse the Fediverse on mobile.
Also on a side note, those are some pretty good additions to Hexbear’s code of conduct.
Can you name these instances? For research purposes.
Hexbear - tankie bullshit.
Oh hey it’s the guy that goes into threads and complains about le tankies without even talking about the post. Touch grass loser.
It’s so hard for you hexbears since you federated and met people who disagree with you.
Someone asked for an example. I gave one. Seems fairly on topic to me.
You seem to be the one that doesn’t like hearing from people who disagree with you if you’re looking for ways to ingore entire instances based on your hurt feelings.
Hexbears are just trolls. They generally aren’t coming into threads to have real discussions (and when they make attempts at it they often seem confused about their own stated ideology) - the unstated goal is to be disruptive to deny “shit libs” a platform.
Classic liberal lack of self awareness. You spent all your time in the reddit echo chamber and the first thing you do after stepping out is whining about “le tankies”. lmao.
Use UBo filter lists https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853
Ah, I mostly view Lemmy through Jerboa, but thanks for the idea.
If you’re using an app, both connect and sync for lemmy have instance filtering.
The caveat is that it’s filtering, which is in-app only. But it works quite well in both.
On the contrary, I’m super glad to find out I can block the posts of a community without generalizing about the quality of its users.
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