1 yr. ago • 91%

Can we block entire instances?

There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they're very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I've been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?

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There's a PR for it. Hopefully we get it on the next update.

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- Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.
  
  Well that's disappointing.
  
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  Ugh - that's really frustrating especially since they must know this isn't what everyone actually wants. Let us have personal defederation - it would solve the whole defederation controversy in one stroke. There would no longer be any reason for instances to make such huge decisions on behalf of all it's users, and individuals can choose to disengage with toxic communities on their own
  
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- Cool!
  
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- That's awesome! This is much needed.
  
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Connect for lemmy let's you do thus as well. User, Community, or instance.

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- This is nice, but not quite the same. Blocks per app are useful, but it’s even nicer when you can have blocks per user. Like I want to block lemmynsfw.com on this account, but not on another account. Right now my solution is using 2 apps.
  
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Through sync for lemmy, you can filter out a whole instance.

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- Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments
  
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Not yet, someone requested this feature and I would like it to to block the NSFW porn instances. I do have NSFW enabled but I still see pictures of SFW girls in my feed from NSFW instances and I would like to just block that stuff from those adult only instances.

I not for lemmy.world blocking or deferating instances in general. But this feature gives the user the choice to block instances while others can allow content from instsnces to flow into their feed if they wish.

https://lemmy.world/post/1457532

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- One day - social media will break up NSFW tags into actual useful warning tags - so we can mute porn without blocking movie spoilers or troubling news articles and shit like that
  
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- Connect lets you block whole instances
  
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  I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.
  
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It's ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.

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Will blocking an instance also block all their users?

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- I use connect, and any posts from a user in a blocked instance still pops up with a message saying what instance they're on and that it's blocked, but I can click on it to reveal the comment.
  
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  That's probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.
  
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- I’m pretty sure it just blocks the posts from your feed.
  
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Can you name these instances? For research purposes.

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- Hexbear - tankie bullshit.
  
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  Oh hey it's the guy that goes into threads and complains about le tankies without even talking about the post. Touch grass loser.
  
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  Oh no.
  
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  I honestly don't mind hexbear, but I'd gladly give you the ability to block them if it means that I would be able to block lemmygrad.
  
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While I'm upset that OP doesn't want to see hexbear posts, this is actually a good idea. It's practically impossible to block an instance's communities one by one. I just want to be able to filter them out from the "All" view. I have no issues with individual users' comments showing up. Federation is awesome but I'd like to have the tools to customize "All" to my liking. (edit: Alternatively consider adding another customizable view mode next to subscribed/local/all)

Also please consider the suggestion posted here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3744501

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- That seems like a pretty cool idea - though I do think there would also need to be a push for mobile apps to support a similar concept. While I personally don't, I am sure there are plenty of people who only browse the Fediverse on mobile.
  
  Also on a side note, those are some pretty good additions to Hexbear's code of conduct.
  
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You can do it on Kbin but I don’t know how to do it on Lemmy.

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- Has kbin added the ability to follow hashtags yet? That's pretty much the only feature that I need to be able/willing to fully migrate my lemmy/mastadon
  
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  I haven’t seen it but I almost never touch the microblog section.
  
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- How do I do that?
  
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  Format your links like this to target the desired instance: https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml
  
  Then go to the sidebar and look for the 🚫 symbol and click that. I did it for LemmyNSFW and I haven’t seen any posts from there.
  
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Am I dumb because I'm on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.

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On the contrary, I'm super glad to find out I can block the posts of a community without generalizing about the quality of its users.

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- Ah, I mostly view Lemmy through Jerboa, but thanks for the idea.
  
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  If you're using an app, both connect and sync for lemmy have instance filtering.
  
  The caveat is that it's filtering, which is in-app only. But it works quite well in both.
  
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