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How to block another instance to curate your Lemmy experience (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Many newer Lemmy users still don't know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.

This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.

  1. Open your profile Settings page:

  1. Switch from the Settings tab to the Blocks tab

  1. From this page you can block by User, Instance, or Community

That's all there is to it.

Edit: No offense to [email protected] for appearing in my community block list. It's just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually, the "unspecified" rule is left over from lemmy in it's 0.17 days, because there were severe UI bugs that would frequently blackhole all content on a user's side if it was set to a specific language. I think it's all patched now, and you can select both a language and Unspecified now without nuking your visibility, but the habit is entrenched and most people never set their language default after they joined.