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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not enough, I'm disappointed tbh. I'll unblock them when they man up and actually learn how to properly flood a site with B E A N S

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why’d ya spill yer beans?

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

If your comment gets 2 upvotes, you can never mention beans again

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I just blocked cats. I like cats. But there’s a gazillion of cats on my feed all of a sudden.

Cats.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well he's just magnificent! Please tell this cat I love them.

[–] Wilshire 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You know a website is making it when there's pussy, and pussy. We need more balance on the pussies tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm the same. I also block individuals who post the same thing in like 6 different subs. Yes those posts can tech ically belong in 6 different subs, but if I see more then 2 I just don't care and it's instant block from me.

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

Absolutely. First thing I did when I discovered how to block communities. And I like cats too.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you! Shitpost was the first one to go. If I never see another bean in my life it will be too soon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

But beans are really a great nutritious food. Cheap too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It won't always be beans, though it may be a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It will always be shit, however.

[–] damnYouSun 1 points 1 year ago

If they know anything it's how to take a joke too far.

It's be beans for a while.

[–] damnYouSun 1 points 1 year ago

Quality shit posting needs to be related but it needs to be a one-off kind of thing in an otherwise more serious community.

Otherwise it gets boring.

The beans thing has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm blocking 196 for sure

Rule

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had to do that too. I don't really hate it, but it's like every other post on All. Annoying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For WefWef users there isn’t a block button, however, switch to Memmy or Mlem and block them through that and it will also block in WefWef. Just wanted to throw that out there.

[–] skitlex 10 points 1 year ago

Good suggestion. I’ll add the feature tomorrow as a PR.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thank goodness. The shit post communities are by far the most popular right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do that instead of subscribing to communities.

So far I've mostly just blocked sports related communities. Also Apple.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be cool if there was a way to block without having to visit a site like [email protected] first.

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

Turn off NSFW in your user profile first. But you're right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish there was difference between porn nsfw and just nsfw tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to review what you've blocked and/or unblock a community?

I've looked and if it's there, I can't see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to block an entire instance without having to manually block all of it's communities?

I don't want to disable NSFW in my user profile.

[–] cyanarchy 2 points 1 year ago

This feature is currently not available on a per-user level.

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

Is there any way to block an entire server that's federated to the one you have an account on? I don't want to individually block every single community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No, your admin could defederate them but that effects everyone

A lot of people have requested this feature though, so it may come.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It would be great... I'm tired of pawb.social and yiffit.net.

To each its own, but furry and furry porn are not for me.

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

Thanks for the response!

I think I might be done with lemmy until that's introduced. I want to be a part of the midwest.social community on here, but I don't want to block new porn communities every day as their volume of votes tends to dominate the feed.

And I don't want to set it to subscribed communities only, because then I won't find new communities I'll actually enjoy and engage with. I think there's a lot of potential with these federated communities, but it's just not mature enough for user controls yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As an FYI you you go to your profile settings on your instance's site, you can turn off NSFW and you won't see any of that.

You could also sign up to an instance that blocks the porn one, and still participate in Midwest.social communities

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

It's a decent bandaid, but I don't want to block all NSFW content, I just want better controls around it so I'm not fighting an onslaught of creative new community names around anal whenever I open the site or an app.

I could indeed join another instance, but figuring out which instances are federated to which other instances is a bit of a slog from a user perspective unless there's a big searchable graph available somewhere (which is entirely possible, I'm still very ignorant).

And who knows, maybe the apps will get better and be able to grab a local-only feed for each instance you have an account on and can patch together a feed from them all mixed together, and that would get me close to a workable solution for the long run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suppose you could also sit down and subscribe to every community you want. Then used the subscribed feed. Kinda kills discovery for new communities though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is there anyway to block instances without defederating? If not I'd like to see that as an option

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fedi users 🤝 blocking shitposting communities

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

Too many beans

[–] praxi 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I couldn’t find it in sidebar in wefwef. Hopefully they will add it in the future

[–] ALERT 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The naming of this button is too rough, IMO. And it could have been placed in the dropdown menu for each post. kthnx.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On Jerboa it is and I'm extremely grateful for it. Blocked a bunch of lemmynsfw communities that I'd rather not see scrolling in public 😅

Hopefully comes to the web version soon.

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

Does anyone know how to do this from the thunder app? I can't seem to figure it out. It's easy enough on jerboa but I can't see an option on thunder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I recommend lift off but it doesn't have gesture controls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some apps have it, some don't yet.

They're all still under heavy development I'm sure it will come eventually.

But if you block it on one app or the site, it should stay blocked on Thunder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And yet what I really, really want is the ability to block instances… any idea if/when that is coming? I know it's a thing on Mastodon so it should be one here too, hopefully.

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