When blocking communities, they will not show up in your “all” feed anymore. This makes browsing Lemmy nicer especially now that you might not subscribed to a lot of communities.

In the browser: In you Lemmy instance, click on your username (right upper corner), “Settings” and open the tab “Blocks” and type in the community you would like to block. Here you can also unblock communities

On Jerboa (Android): Open the community you would like to block, click on the 3 dotted menu (right upper corner) and click “Block Community”. Note: you can not unblock on Jerboa. Use the browser (Settings -> Blocks) to unblock.

  • godless
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    432 years ago

    I wish we could block full instances that way. I blocked 30 different communities on lemmynsfw and every time I browse /all there are 10 new ones.

    Now I’m not some prude snowflake, but my use case for lemmy (as it was for reddit) is simply the polar opposite, and having to block all of those titty farms individually is frustrating.

    • @eekrano
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      162 years ago

      Ability to block instances at the user level should be coming in one of the next updates

      • @IowaMan
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        42 years ago

        Is there a roadmap anywhere? I looked at joinlemmy and it’s only showing vague news instead of a clear, concise roadmap. Oh and yeah, blocking instances is critical. Really annoyed with socialist spam.

        • @eekrano
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          32 years ago

          I don’t know of any formal roadmap for all major upcoming changes/features, no. Sorry!

        • joshinya
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          12 years ago

          I think we’ll probably get something soon. Activity on a few open issues and pull requests from 2022 or earlier seemed to increase a lot over the past week, I imagine they’re still figuring out what needs to be prioritized on the fly.

    • @Spacecraft
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      102 years ago

      I wish we could block full instances that way.

      Yes! I want to block beehaw. If they’re going to defederate 90% of the instances, I don’t want to see anything from them.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      102 years ago

      Same for me. I don’t need to see nudes in my feed when I’m at work or some public place.

      In the android app there is a setting called “show NSFW”. I’m not sure if it really not fetching it or just not showing. Could be important if you are using it on a work phone.

      • godless
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        52 years ago

        On mobile I’m usually browsing subscribed communities, on desktop I’m exploring new ones. No idea why, just turned out that way for the time being.

        Good point with the not displaying vs. not fetching! I’m using my private phone for work with a second SIM, so that’s not an issue here, but it might certainly be for others. I’d expect the filter to fully ignore NSFW, but with an app in its alpha stage, you never know just how things are implemented early on.

    • GONADS125
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      92 years ago

      I would love to be able to block lemmygrad in its entirety. As soon as we get that feature I’m using it. Like you said, it’s too tedious doing it by community.

    • TheOneCurly
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      82 years ago

      That’s one thing I think kbin is really doing right. You can block communities (magazines), users, and domains.

      • godless
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        42 years ago

        Yep, as soon as that’s a feature with lemmy, it will improve my user experience drastically.

    • autumn
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      52 years ago

      “titty farms” 😂

      I feel the same way about the same instance.

    • @Mac
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      42 years ago

      Yes, we need this functionality. Not only for titty pages but also for hate-filled instances.

    • Ciel
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      42 years ago

      You can disable showing nsfw post in your settings if that helps

      • godless
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        42 years ago

        It’s a temporary workaround, but not really a permanent fix. There’s NSFW other than porn, and I don’t necessarily want to block everything 18+.

        • Ciel
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          12 years ago

          true

          tbh porn centerd instances shouldn’t be federatet imo

          • godless
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            12 years ago

            To each their own, I don’t want to make it sound like I support censorship. But yeah I guess it does create endless redundancies of pics only a handful people per instance ever watch.

    • @stonesimulator
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      22 years ago

      It should eventually be condensed into a whitelist(subscribe) / blacklist(block) function, with more granular controls.

      It would be awesome if we could use regex, too: like adding *@assholes.instance to the blocklist and add linux@* to the whitelist.