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Am I correct in assuming that blocking a community stops it from showing in your feed? I see a lot of posts from communities in languages I don't speak and would like them to not show up on my feed. So I blocked a few, but I'm not 100% sure if what I did has the intended effect.

(Maybe it's just because to me, blocking a person seems like something I wouldn't do to someone who hasn't done anything wrong, haha XD)

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[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

Just to be clear, I think someone doesn't have to have done something wrong for you to block them. The block list is an important self-care tool and you don't need a reason to look out for yourself. <3

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

Good point! Haha. The first time I saw that option I immediately clicked it but then suddenly I was thinking I wouldn't just block some random person without a good reason and then my mind went: it's not the same as REPORTING a community, is it?

[-] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I felt exactly the same way when I blocked the NSFW instance! I haven't blocked anyone, let alone a whole "community", for many years! Odd thing to think/consider when we just tryna block some pornbots lol.

[-] Fallstar@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

That is what I have done and I think it is working

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

Good to know! Thanks!

[-] zombie_kong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Correct, that's pretty much it.

[-] Panda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] LostCause@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With kbin you can block the instance, with Lemmy you either can a) block all their communities (subreddits) or users b) ask to get blocked by their mods or admins or c) hope your instance admin defederates them.

As someone who wants to block certain communities out of my life, like say conspiracy Q ones, I wasn‘t able to stay on Lemmy as long as we don‘t have that feature. Hope they‘ll add it eventually.

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

Ah I do get the option to do it for individual communities as well (on Lemmy). Maybe it's a new feature?

[-] LostCause@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Communities are the groups (subreddits) on an instance (Reddit) it‘s a bit confusing for me sometimes, think I also used that word for instance.

For example if there is a "altright conspiracy instance" (there is and it bothered me), I would have to go there and block all their communities individually and since they are creating new ones too I would have to go there regularly, just to never see them again.

Whereas with kbin I could block their entire instance which means I‘ll never see any of their communities anywhere which is nice. Afaik instance blocking still isn‘t a thing with Lemmy as just yesterday I saw some other people from there lament the same thing.

[-] NSA_Server_04@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I blocked a handful of communities because I don't care to see their content, but nothing wrong with it. You do you.

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

Communities or users, yes. I found the latter to be more productive when you want to rid your frontpage (is there an established term for that on lemmy just yet?) or porn, for example, since there are a few accounts (bots, most likely) cross-posting their NSFW stuff over several instances and communities. Tried blocking those individually first, but the content pops up elsewhere again.

[-] Evono@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Simply block the community's, or join a more restrictive lemmy instance which filters instances in a way you want ( nothing bad in this that's one of the feats of lemmy and stuff)

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can block communities/users or even instances (on kbin). this is one approach, and works like a blacklist

or you can subscribe to some communities and set Subscribed/Hot as default feed in your account. this is more like whitelist

i suspect the intended approach is the latter, because you can see communities you usually don't without unblocking them if you follow links or search for them specifically

[-] ninjirate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can also block whole instances/servers by clicking on the domain and blocking from there. It looked like a bunch of furry stuff was being posted to a specific server earlier so I block it and I haven't seen anything since

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Not on lemmy. That is a kbin feature for now.

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

Oh, you can? That's really good to know! Thanks for the tip!

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

That applies specifically to kbin (note that the user you replied to is on kbin). It is not a feature yet available in Lemmy, though I imagine it's coming.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

You can on kbin, not on lemmy.

[-] Panda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, thanks!

[-] Bloonface@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That furry spam was infuriating. Especially since on Kbin, you have to navigate to the specific domain itself using the Kbin interface, which means seeing more furry porn.

While it's just annoying in the case of furries getting to shove their fetish in peoples' faces, it poses a serious issue in case there's a domain that starts posting less-than-legal porn or whatever - in some jurisdictions, even having that in your browser cache is a crime, so specifically having to look at all the content from such a domain is... sub-optimal.

[-] Doomhammer458@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Shout out to furries though. I learned how to block magazines day one thanks to them.

[-] DonaldTrump@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Why would you want to do that? All communities have value. It would be sad to try to block one out. We need unity, folks. Let's embrace everyone and work together to make America great again.

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