How do I block all hexbear and lemmy.ml. I'm sick of being a part of the China/Russia psyops. : syncforlemmy

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The best way is to make an account on a server that doesn't federate with them. Sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, and most other large servers are defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad.ml.

Apparently lemmy.cafe is defederated from those as well as lemmy.ml. Be aware that a good chunk of major communities are hosted in lemmy.ml, so you won't be able to access those if you're defederated.

Unfortunately even if you block them, you will still see posts and comments that users from that server make on external communities. It's only by being fully defederated that you won't be able to see any of their content at all.

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

Sh.itjust.works is not defederated from hexbear lol. I can speak from experience that they still show up everywhere.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah I guess that's true, they are defederated from us but technically we aren't defederated from them. But they still can't see anything that SJW users post or participate in our communities. And same for lemmy.world, etc.

So you only really see them when they comment on lemmy.ml communities for the most part. There are a lot of lemmy.ml sublemmies to be fair.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

Thank you. I'm currently on lemme and it's a good instance. I guess I should hop over to lemmy.world if they already defederated them.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Lemm.ee is a really good server but if hexbear and lemmygrad annoy you, then it's not the right fit for you.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Ya, it's sad but true

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 22 points 9 hours ago

The lemmy.cafe instance is defederated from lemmy.ml and hexbear. If you use a lemmy.cafe account, you won't see any post/comment/communities from users of those instances.

For me, this works better than having to block users one by one. Lemmy is only tolerable to me because of this option.

[+] bdonvr@thelemmy.club -19 points 7 hours ago

Blocking Lemmy.ml, the oldest and one of the most active, seems more than extreme.

[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 hour ago

How is it extreme to block discussions from a bunch of children?

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Go look at the modlog for any .ml community and you'll see why people never want to go there.

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 17 points 7 hours ago

My other option is to completely quit Lemmy.

[-] iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm actually thinking about it, most of the content from my country is just propaganda and manipulated news and every time I try to correct it I get downvoted to hell.
The rest is the same content I can already find in Reddit or content I don't really care about.

Also that thing about my posts/comments never really getting deleted or not allowing me to delete something if a power tripping mod from ml bans me, still bothers me.

Edit: also a lot of instances also block the nsfw ones for whatever reason... So that makes it even harder.

[-] cyps@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

Yeah, I feel it too.

Lemmy fills about half the void left from when I quit using Reddit. Helps me keep up with things... but there is just so much negativity: outrage, propaganda, and outright gaslighting.

So much time spent blocking stuff just so I can scroll the feed without killing my mood. Power users, power tripping mod/admins, users solely here to push an agenda, and the hivemind are as prevalent as ever.

On a technical level, I'm not even sure if the protocol is right for this kind of service. Large instances have so much power. The barrier for entry for small instances grows every day. User privacy and control of your own content sucks.

Not saying it's all bad here, just saying it feels lacking. At least reddit had varied and active niche communities, where you could find better quality discussions than the default subs.

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 hours ago

Te entiendo.

I wish there were better alternatives. For now I use Lemmy only for specific communities.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 hours ago

Blocking worldnews@lemmy.ml is a must. It's openly russian propaganda.

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 3 points 5 hours ago

Feel ya, every now and then I do find an interesting conversation on both, but most of the time its just annoying spam at best.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

I saw an article about how shit the American economy is and how amazing of a job Xi bear is doing in China and I'm like, no.... No I'm done.

[-] Memememe@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Settings shortcut: Filters > Instance filters

Is this the one?

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You can also block the instance at the account settings level (Blocks tab). That way you will not see posts from these instances on both the webUI and mobile apps.

Sadly it doesn't have a toggle to block comments and post from users of these instances made on communities outside of these blocked instances

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

Thank you. I think I might have inputted the instances in wrong.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Mine doesn't have @ signs. This might be easier to do in the lemmy web UI than within Sync. When you start typing an instance name, it will pop up a list of matches that you can click, so you don't have to worry about typos or syntax.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Thanks I'll try that.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 22 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You can block full instances via a PC. I generally surf lemmy using Boost and I wasn't able to do on my phone.

But go to your settings>blocked>instances and type in the instances you want to block.

Also fair warning, you're most likely about to get brigaded by both instances

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Mobile Web too.

What's important to note is it blocks all the subs from that instinance, but not posts those users make to other instances.

And you'll still see all their comments, but you won't get notified if someone from those instances reply to you. You can still see them and reply back, but you won't be notified

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 5 points 9 hours ago

It's better off blocking users one by one because of all the people with alts. Cut their head off and two more grow in it's place

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Nah, I blocked .ml, hilariouschaos, and a couple other troll instances.

Worked out great so far, I've even thought of blocking some of the "dead" instances because that's where troll accounts usually come from.

The main issue is accidentally stumbling into a sub on their instance, anywhere else and mods/admins can step in.

But there is zero reason to ever comment or even see a post made on those instances, because the worst users on them are the mods/admins.

So you just stop going to their house where they make the rules.

[-] Lupus@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago

Boost has that option under settings>filters & blocks>muted instances. You have to type in the instance address but it worked for me at least.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Weird. I couldn't do it, but it's all good. I can remove blocked instances but not add them on boost. Might be a bug I should let the devs know about

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

What is brigaded?!?! Is that bad?!?!

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Brigading

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 9 hours ago

Can't wait for mbin to have the same feature. Those two instances might as well be official Russian servers.

[-] doc@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

It already does, and was in kbin day one (of reddit Exodus). Look in your settings for the block domains area. Unfortunately the feature to add a domain block only worked on desktop for me.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

I tried that feature. It only blocks links / posts with those servers - as in, if somebody makes a post and puts a link to that server as the topic, then that post won't show up. Unless a new feature was introduced, I'm afraid that's it.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 9 points 10 hours ago

Three dots on a post > filter > filter instance

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Doesn't seem to work.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 1 points 6 hours ago

Which part isn't working?

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

I think I figured it out. I removed the @ and I think it worked.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 1 points 5 hours ago

Oo good to know, thanks for letting us know

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Thank everyone on this forum for being so helpful.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

You can block instances in Voyager. I don't know if it blocks everything though, like comments from a blocked instance account etc.

[+] Thann@lemmy.ml -16 points 8 hours ago

There's nothing quite like freebasing bulllshit tho

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

OP is talking about cutting off the troll instances...

Not spending more time there.

[+] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl -29 points 9 hours ago

we are legion, you can never block us all

[-] nobleshift@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

What are you? 14?

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

Weird

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