Can we block entire instances?
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!
Well that's disappointing.
Ugh - that's really frustrating especially since they must know this isn't what everyone actually wants. Let us have personal defederation - it would solve the whole defederation controversy in one stroke. There would no longer be any reason for instances to make such huge decisions on behalf of all it's users, and individuals can choose to disengage with toxic communities on their own
I get why you would want that, but I think that would end up causing other weird issues. Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain? Would it cut off the thread there, or would there just be a comment missing?
I'll take the simple solution over no solution.
I'd expect "Removed" or "Blocked" or whatever.
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.
Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments
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.
https://lemmy.world/post/1457532
One day - social media will break up NSFW tags into actual useful warning tags - so we can mute porn without blocking movie spoilers or troubling news articles and shit like that
Connect lets you block whole instances
I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.
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
It's ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.
Can you name these instances? For research purposes.
Hexbear - tankie bullshit.
Why not both?
I’m itching so hard to block both.
Hexbear is far more obnoxious than lemmygrad imo. At least lemmygrad doesn't turn every thread into a middle school "#random" message board by filling it with cringe jpeg emojis.
Exactly. Hexbears posting culture diverged off into its own Darwinian branch and getting back to wider federation has been a bit of a wake up call for both camps.
Am I dumb because I'm on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.
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.
Has kbin added the ability to follow hashtags yet? That's pretty much the only feature that I need to be able/willing to fully migrate my lemmy/mastadon
How do I do that?
/d/, of course! I tried getting the formatting down a couple of weeks back but gave up so thanks!
I didn't block NSFW instances but I also don't see them. I'd like to though.
It is enabled. Still no tiddies:(
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.