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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] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Timely info, thanks!

Bye bye hexbear...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I sought out and discovered this feature existed only last week right after I wondered if I could block all of hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blocking an instance only blocks the communities and you have to block the users individually when they post on communities of other instances.

I'm hoping for an additional option to block all users of an instance to be added.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I would like to have an option that works like the instance block feature on connect. It blocks the instance and then puts a "comment hidden due to blocked instance: exampleinstance.net" which lets you know that its there and gives you the option to unhide that comment if you want to know what it says.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You also need to block everyone from Hexbear. I don't have the same reaction to everyone from ML (though I have that instance blocked too), but after I interact with them, they usually get blocked anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

fun fact: they can't reply back to you if you block them. I only found that out because I would get errors trying to reply to people who hate me.

[–] Reverendender 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How dare you block Everett True comics

[–] Assman 13 points 3 months ago

He's in for a walloping

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another good non-offensive example is communities that speak a different language than you.

/c/ich_iel, you all seem very nice, but I never know what the hell you are yammering on about. BLOCKED.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ich_iel bothers me because you shouldn't have to block it. Lemmy has language filters built in. You should never see anything in a language you haven't told Lemmy you speak.

But ich_iel doesn't use that filter. Their users leave their posts' language seeing as unspecified. So everyone ends up seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anyone tried actually talking to their admins?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

we did but they spoke german

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Shock 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yep. I chalk this up to some poor advice of people telling new users to use unspecified instead of their language in their posts. You can't really choose to not see unspecified language posts because then you wouldn't see anything because hardly anyone picks a language.

Edit: to be clear, I believe that everyone should use unspecified and all languages they speak as content they see but mark all content they post as the language they're using in that content. If the onboarding experience was better about making people always use their language of choice for content they post then I wouldn't necessarily recommend people include unspecified in the content they see.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Actually, it's on the mods. If mods configure communities to only the expecte language without undefined, all the posts will be tagged with that language

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I would try to reach out to the mods again. I remember doing it once, and someone said they had changed it, but I guess they forgot to remove "undefined"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You can also do it for individual users or communities from their respective landing pages after clicking on their name (or sidebar for communities) which often time is more intuitive to do immediately when you run across some particular bad stinky bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good point, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And the easiest way to handle blocking in many apps too, quick and easy peasy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Oh no... I cannot block my own instance 😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How do you guys come across all these marxist? I only browse "all" and I don't see anything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of us are of the opinion that they're just falsely claiming to be Marxists.

It primarily comes from a specific instance though and they're slowly becoming more and more isolated. If you stick to the defaults on .world, you may not see them that much. Say something about China though and they'll find you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah. Some are real Marxists. I disagree but respect and appreciate them, they're welcome here. A huge chunk are fake accounts run by the Kremlin or CCP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Because you aren't federated with certain instances?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

/c/all will definitely show instances like lemmygrad where it's very common

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lemmy.world (your home instance) is currently defederated on an instancewide level from the main perpetrators of the CCP/Putin-sponsored drivel: lemmygrad and hexbear. They caused too many problems, and too many use abuse brigades/dogpiles, so they excised the cancer.

Defederation means that lemmy.world does not ask for, and does not accept, any kind of new content from either of those instances, nor does it send out new content from .world to them. They're effectively completely cut off.

you'll still see it from time to time on lemmy.ml, especially in their "World News" community (where you are banned for remotely indicating Russia is bad) as a lot of that is tacitly allowed and encouraged by .ml admins and the Lemmy devs. but it's a lot more subdued and easier to just ignore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm using connect for lemmy and a few weeks ago I ended up blocking entire instances because of lemmyshitpost and some variants. No regrets so far, and browsing Lemmy got so much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If only we could have a keywords tab right there.