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?
Through sync for lemmy, you can filter out a whole instance.
Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments
Will blocking an instance also block all their users?
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.
Can you name these instances? For research purposes.
Hexbear - tankie bullshit.
Am I dumb because I’m on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.
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.
Connect lets you block whole instances
I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.
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
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It’s ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.
