12mo ago

Is there a way to block a community without going to it's page?

Hi, I am new to Lemmy and I just need help with something kinda QoL-ish. Is it possible to look at a post on the homepage IE http://lemmy.ca, and block the community it is coming from?

I don't want to have to manually click on the community and go to its page every time I want to block one. Is there like an extension or a specific UI mode that lets you do this? Thanks!

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Thank you everyone for your client recommendations!
Edit: The Alexandrite web interface allows you to block a community by pressing the three dots next to a post, and this is what I ended up using.

there is a "block" section in your profile...

I think the web front-end doesn't, but most clients do. No idea why they are making a feature available through the api that they don't use themselves, but that's what it is.
My client of choice is Sync, but really most of them do the trick.
- Huh, kinda weird that it isn't a feature on the web version. I guess I will look for a good client.
  
  Yeah no idea why. Would be trivial to add it to the context menu where you can block the user, hide post etc.

I'm using ~~Pachii~~ Connect as my client and each post has a "Block Community" option.
- Could you link me to that? I can't seem to find it.
  
  Doh, Pachii is on Mastodon.
  Connect is what I meant:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
- But you can also block without going into community as asked here using block list.
  
  You don't need to open the post or go into the community to block it using the method I mentioned.

Connect has a block list where you can add instances and coms without going to them.

I'm on eternity on android and you can do that when viewing a post

Wait, how many communities do you need to block every day for this to be an issue?
- I'm mostly blocking news/politics stuff because sometimes ignorance is bliss.
  
  wouldn't it be easier to stop browsing by all and only see the things you want to see?
- There's some new lemmynsfw uber-kink community every like...hour, with some dude shoving pickle jars up his ass or whatever; so...thousands, so long as this list doesn't have an upper limit. Sorry, I don't want pretend-jailbait porn or pickle-jar dude in my /all

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