Is there a way to completely block users from an instance? Comments and posts? (Technical question) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ruckblack@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Howdy, so while I'm able to block all posts from hexbear.net accounts, it seems there's no way for me to block all their comments on instances they're federated with. I'd rather not leave some of the communities that are still federated with them, but I would like to be able to block or hide all of their comments in the threads.

Is there any way to do this yet? Or do I just need to move to an instance that's defederated from them?

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[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 13 points 4 months ago

Connect for lemmy allows instance blocking. I don't see any posts from hexbear and their comments show as hidden unless I tap to show the contents.

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Interesting, maybe I'll make the switch. I'm on sync for now, and it's in-app blocking features leave a lot to be desired

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 8 points 4 months ago

Voyager also has instance blocking if you wanna give that one a shot too.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Please for the love of God tell me how I've looked at settings menus and googled y and nothing of value comes up

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 4 points 4 months ago

omg lol

Settings
Filters & blocks
Block instances

let me know if you want some screenshots

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Sweet fuck it makes you scroll past your individual block list that's why I couldn't find it

Baffling design decision, saviour

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I completely agree. I feel like I have to traverse the entire menu system, which is also broken into different areas, to find some feature I'm sure must be there, I just haven't found it yet.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

You can allways block through the desktop site and it'll work.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Just block it directly on the instance.

I was on Memmy for the first months here, and instance blocking was not supported through the app, but I could do it on desktop, and it still worked as it was blocked on my account.

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

I'm using Connect and blocked both hexbear and lemmy.ml.

It's a peaceful life.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 4 months ago

AFAIK, your home server would need to be fully defederated with an instance for you to stop seeing comments from users there. Instance blocking only blocks posts from there and I think communities hosted there. Only other way is to block those users individually which is a pain.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Locking as this post violates rule 5.

[+] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -18 points 4 months ago

If the goal is to block out all progressives, won't you also have to block individual users who are not of that instance, but are still active within?

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Who said progressives? I said hexbear.net, huge difference

[-] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Hexbear is the opposite of progressive. It’s absolutely chock full of hatred of tons of groups. And they just make up shit instead of caring about facts.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I have blocked plenty of high profile progressive instances, hexbear, blahaj, and more.

I didn't do it because they were progressive, I did it because I can't stand the behavior of hexbear communities. I also got my feed completely taken over by posts from blahaj instances. I am fine with the trans community, if you figure out that you are trans, fine, I will do my best to respect you and your identity, but I don't want my feed taken over by posts about a single topic.

Then there are instances that specifically cater to a single language I don't speak, I block them right away.

Finally, NSFW communities like lemmynsfw.com, I use my phone at work quite a bit, and I don't even want to risk opening a NSFW picture at work, so I filter the entrie instances dedicated to NSFW content.

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