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[-] admin@lemmy.magnor.ovh 6 points 1 year ago

I host my own instance mostly because I find it fun to do, and because it allows me to choose which communities and instance I federate with without having my account tied to the whims of somebody else.

[-] mr_washee_washee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

i wish us users could afford such luxury of blocking certain instances on our own.

[-] admin@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 1 year ago

That would be very welcome indeed, I agree!

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Allow a user to block an instance #2397

You can contribute, encourage others to contribute, post a bounty or leave a thumbs up, or wait.

Another option is to block communities, you can already do that on your own.

[-] mr_washee_washee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

yea, guess i ll wait. for exemple, when i m in lemmygrad (please dont judge me lol) i can see comments from explosive heads users, which unfortunatly, my instance (lemmy grad) is still federated with them, but also i dont wanna block a user from them each time i see one, i dont really wanna hear from them. yea, but this is much bigger than a community, this is a whole instance, hence the question. thought i should be vocal about this feature. i guess i wasnt the first one to suggest. thank you for linking me in to the github page.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

i can see comments from explosive heads users, which unfortunatly, my instance (lemmy grad) is still federated with them

https://lemmygrad.ml/instances

https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=lemmygrad.ml

Both see exploding-heads.com blocked by lemmygrad.ml, apparently since 2023-06-15. Are the comments you see older than this? You shouldn't see any e-h activity on lg communities after that date. Or you're viewing the local copy of a lemmygrad community on exploding-heads, but in this case you should only see e-h comments after that date.

[-] mr_washee_washee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

i am seeing e-h comments in fact, and thats whats bugging me :/ i am a lemmygrad user

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I think that functionality will eventually be added when the devs get around to it.

[-] senicar@social.cyb3r.dog 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. I want to federate and block who I want to federate and block. Large instance admins need to make compromises for practical reasons, but I don't. My personal instance has no boards, so I don't have to deal with problematic users from other instances either. If an instance is particularly awful, I can just not visit them until I have time to switch to my admin account and defederate it, there's no urgency.

Plus, I thought it would be easier to get my friends to switch if they had an admin they could literally call if they ran into problems.

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