I have blocked lemmy.ml but posts in its various communities still show up in my commented feed.

Do I have to block every community?

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Blocking an instance only prevents posts (not comments) from it showing up in your feeds (all/local/subscribed)

    Users and their comments are not blocked. You can still see their comments on posts/communities you haven’t blocked.

    By ‘commented feed’ I presume you mean posts you’ve commented on? They won’t be blocked there.

    • stevecrox@kbin.runOP
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      6 months ago

      I’m not sure the approach makes sense from a users perspective.

      I would expect the subscribed view: (e.g. https://kbin.run/sub/commented/6h) to only contain content I have explictiy subscribed to. However…

      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post is from a subscribed domain THEN it should be displayed
      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post is from a subscribed magazine THEN it should be displayed
      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post isis commented by a subscribed user THEN it should be displayed
      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post is from a blocked magazine THEN it should be hidden
      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post is from a blocked domain THEN it should be hidden
      • WHEN viewing subscribed view AND post is from a blocked user THEN it should be hidden

      When in the default view (e.g. https://kbin.run/commented/6h)

      • WHEN viewing all view AND a post is from a blocked magazine THEN the post should be hidden
      • WHEN viewing all view AND a post is from a blocked domain THEN the post should be hidden
      • WHEN viewing all view AND a post is from a blocked user THEN the post should be hidden

      Then when viewing a post:

      • WHEN viewing a post AND a comment is from a user on a blocked domain THEN the comment should be hidden
      • WHEN viewing a post AND a comment is from a blocked user THEN the comment should be hidden
      • e-five@kbin.run
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        6 months ago

        Right now, Mbin does not have a way to block instances (the above poster may have assumed you were using lemmy, which recently adding the feature). Blocking domains works some of the time for text posts and comments, but for posts it’s filtering on what appears in the () at the end of the post. So the original purpose was to be able to block domains like youtube.com or yahoo.com for example and you wouldn’t see posts linking to those domains. Blocking instances is something that still needs to be implemented

        • stevecrox@kbin.runOP
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          6 months ago

          With KBin you would go to the domain view (https://kbin.run/d/lemmy.ml) scroll to the bottom of the page and choose ‘block’. This was implemented before the fork into MBin

          This is how I cut out the endless memes from Blaj, but it doesn’t appear to function here

          • e-five@kbin.run
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            6 months ago

            It’s possible there are issues with it (it wouldn’t be the first time), at least for me it seems to be working, if I block lemmy.ml and then go to where the latest post was made, that post isn’t shown; granted it still shows all the posts on the /d/ page itself, that’s no different than kbin at least from memory. It’s when a lemmy.ml user posts something like an imgur.com link, that’s technically under the imgur.com domain. It’s possible that has changed since the fork, but I wouldn’t think so as at least it seemed the definition of “domain” would always mean where the post was going to, and an additional level of “instance” needs to be added.

            For example here’s a thread of people talking about it not filtering things out. I imagine they were running into what you may be seeing. I’ve seen it brought up a lot with other people mentioning there is no true instance blocking in /kbin/Mbin, but am having trouble finding those posts.

            edit: Do you have an example post that you would expect to be blocked that you’re still seeing?

              • e-five@kbin.run
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                6 months ago

                Got it, thanks for the example. One trick is the More menu has a “more from domain” and that shows you the domain that it is technically considered under, for that post it looks to be considered under /d/kbin.run. Looking at kbin it does omit the more from domain, potentially when the domain is the local one, but not sure if a block on lemmy.ml would remove it over there, as it doesn’t appear under the domain list from what I see, either way clearly a confusing user experience