You can also block a complete instance from your account
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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MeanwhileOnGrad
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cheers. so lemmy.cafe and lubvit.org
And dubvee.org if you're from the glorious wild and wonderful state of West Virginia, America's very second best Virginia (thus making it probably in the top 5 of all states in terms of my weird nationalistic appreciation of them)
It goes
- The great and glorious Best Virginia
- The Tar Heel State
- Kentucky and its glorious bluegrass
- The wild and wonderful Second Best Virginia
- Ohio
(No but for real though nationalism is dumb)
How to block an entire instance on jerboa:
- Open post.
- Tap three dots on bottom right of post
- Tap block
- You should see options to block user, community, and entire instance.
Thanks. Does this prevent me from seeing users from that community too?
No, I think it just blocks all lemmy.ml communities. Not posts/comments made by ml users on communities from other instances.
In my experience, it did greatly cut down on the tankie posts and comments I was reading because ml users' political takes are mostly contained within their own instance. I only come across tankie takes once every few days now. And I'm on lemmy a lot.
Honestly, unsubbing from lemmy.ml communities helped a ton. I don't browse all, so it's really effective.
PieFed allows you to block entire instances. All of the users, all of their posts, everything.
Otherwise as people have suggested, it is just dubvee.org or Lemmy.cafe.
does piefed have instances which disabled downvotes?
I believe so, though I cannot find great examples to prove it. e.g. [email protected] exists but is empty. Then again, I saw similar occurrences with my old instance, Discuss.Online, when nobody had yet joined [email protected]. So I joined it, waited a day or two, and then all the posts showed up - this is the way that communities used to have be federated, before Blaze went around to virtually every instance and joined almost literally every community to make it already happen for people:-). Anyway, Blaze seems to not have done that for PieFed yet, so I will do it myself.:-)