When browsing through the whole fediverse, sometimes I see something that I didn’t want to see, and I especially don’t want to visit that community in order to block it. It’d be nice to just tap the hamburger menu and block it.

  • Pistcow@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Any idea how I can block all things under @hexbear? Everything coming from that instance is absolute horse shit.

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      11 months ago

      You can filter out posts from instances here: Settings shortcut: Filters > Instance filters

      It unfortunately doesn’t work with comments. But if I recall correctly the Lemmy devs are working on an official personal instance block for this use case.

      Apart from the obvious ones, I currently filter out:

      • lemmit.online (bots that repost random stuff from reddit, never anyone in the comments, which makes it boring.)
      • zerobytes.monster (same as above)
      • lemmynsfw.com (I don’t want to accidentally scroll past poorly tagged NSFW on public transport. It has not been a huge problem but better safe than sorry)
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    11 months ago

    Already have this option in Connect app for Lemmy, from the all hot homepage you can already block instances or communities you don’t like from the individual listing. Honestly a godsend because i like to see what everyone’s up to but i don’t want no furry or other stuff

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    11 months ago

    Big funny here. How exactly do you filter the instance? It asks to type it out but I seem to be doing it wrong. I typed the whole domain https://hexbear… and it didn’t work, tried “hexbear”… should it be @hexbear?

    Thanks fren.

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    11 months ago

    rn to block a community, you have to open it. maybe this could be ported to the 3 dot menù.

    or the block and filter functionality can be merged and ported into lemmy.

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    11 months ago

    Maybe I’m just having a stroke here, but I could swear I’m already blocking communities I don’t want to appear. Let me check…

    Edit: yeah, settings/general/filters. I have a few things filtered out, like hexbear, or whatever it’s called. You can hide based on user, keyword, domain, instance, and community.