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submitted 1 year ago by Anticorp@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] hitagi@ani.social 67 points 1 year ago

There's a PR for it. Hopefully we get it on the next update.

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zarkony@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain?

Presumably, the same thing that happens if you block that user individually.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[-] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! This is much needed.

[-] GandarfDeGrape@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago

Connect for lemmy let's you do thus as well. User, Community, or instance.

[-] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is nice, but not quite the same. Blocks per app are useful, but it’s even nicer when you can have blocks per user. Like I want to block lemmynsfw.com on this account, but not on another account. Right now my solution is using 2 apps.

[-] TheAmishMan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Through sync for lemmy, you can filter out a whole instance.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments

[-] thecam@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[-] quicksand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Connect lets you block whole instances

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[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It's ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.

[-] fleabomber@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Will blocking an instance also block all their users?

[-] Ithilwen@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] AnimusAstralis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Can you name these instances? For research purposes.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh hey it's the guy that goes into threads and complains about le tankies without even talking about the post. Touch grass loser.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Facky@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Am I dumb because I'm on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, I mostly view Lemmy through Jerboa, but thanks for the idea.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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