[SOLVED] Blocking all users from an instance (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tatann@lemm.ee to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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Hi, I know it might sound a bit extreme but is there a way to block every users from specific instances ? Someting like "*@shitty.instance.com" ?

I know it's possible to block instances, but you can still see comments from their users.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's super-weird. I have Hexbear blocked as a whole and I never see anything Hexbear. Likewise, I have most Lemmygrad communities blocked piecemeal (but not the instance blocked whole - yet) and ~~anything to do with those communities too are correctly disappeared.~~

EDIT: After double-checking. OP is correct

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would wonder if your instance defederated them. The op and I are in the same instance, and it has a largely hands-off approach to defederation. (mostly only defederated instances that allow people/bots to share csam and similar content)

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

No. I chose my instance - SDF - precisely because they don't defederate with any other instance and they let users do it for themselves.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting. Can you see this comment by Kieselguhr@ hexbear.net assuming you don't separately have them blocked? https://lemm.ee/comment/20182920

I chose a different user who commented in that same thread I referenced above. I definitely have that instance blocked because I just double checked my filters

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh damn yeah, I do:

It must be a new bug then, because it wasn't like that before. I know because I explicitely checked when I blocked Hexbear.

Also, I realize that I don't see the commenters' instance. So it's easy to miss they're from a blocked instance.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Settings - > Appearance -> scroll to the bottom - > toggle "Show user instance"

Edit to add: hexbear specifically only recently came back to life. They were out of commission for a couple months because the person who held the certificate or however you call it for hosting the server disappeared. There was some drama about the instance name going up for auction afterwards. They are back to Lemmy as of a month or so ago

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks!

As for Hexbear, I had blocked it way before their dumb-dumb moment.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

thanks i had been wondering for a few weeks how to do this.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

FWIW I have gone back to Jerboa: it works as expected wrt blocked instances and users, but also it lets me post in Markdown - something Voyager doesn't seem to do, and I never noticed before.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Voyager blocking behaves exactly the same as in jerboa, since both let the backend do it.

As for markdown, what do you mean? Like a WYSIWYG editor? If so, Voyager prefers to write markdown directly. Fun fact: it was actually one of the main design goals of markdown!

[-] Karl@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kinda unrelated, but why is ur username purple ?

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, all I know is that Jerboa seems to hide comments from Hexbear dwellers while Voyager doesn't.

As for Markup, I tried posting a comment with a ~~...~~ marker in Voyager, and it showed up as ~~some text~~, whereas it correctly showed up as strikethrough text ~~some text~~ in Jerboa.