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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Many newer Lemmy users still don't know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.

This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.

  1. Open your profile Settings page:

  1. Switch from the Settings tab to the Blocks tab

  1. From this page you can block by User, Instance, or Community

That's all there is to it.

Edit: No offense to !truecomics@midwest.social for appearing in my community block list. It's just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep. I chalk this up to some poor advice of people telling new users to use unspecified instead of their language in their posts. You can't really choose to not see unspecified language posts because then you wouldn't see anything because hardly anyone picks a language.

Edit: to be clear, I believe that everyone should use unspecified and all languages they speak as content they see but mark all content they post as the language they're using in that content. If the onboarding experience was better about making people always use their language of choice for content they post then I wouldn't necessarily recommend people include unspecified in the content they see.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually, the "unspecified" rule is left over from lemmy in it's 0.17 days, because there were severe UI bugs that would frequently blackhole all content on a user's side if it was set to a specific language. I think it's all patched now, and you can select both a language and Unspecified now without nuking your visibility, but the habit is entrenched and most people never set their language default after they joined.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Actually, it's on the mods. If mods configure communities to only the expecte language without undefined, all the posts will be tagged with that language

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