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.
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.
Ability to block instances at the user level should be coming in one of the next updates
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.
I don’t know of any formal roadmap for all major upcoming changes/features, no. Sorry!
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.
Awesome!
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s one thing I think kbin is really doing right. You can block communities (magazines), users, and domains.
Yep, as soon as that’s a feature with lemmy, it will improve my user experience drastically.
“titty farms” 😂
I feel the same way about the same instance.
Yes, we need this functionality. Not only for titty pages but also for hate-filled instances.
You can disable showing nsfw post in your settings if that helps
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+.
true
tbh porn centerd instances shouldn’t be federatet imo
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.
Or at least must be opt-in
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.instanceto the blocklist and addlinux@*to the whitelist.
Now I just need a list of all sport related communities.
Dear God yes. Every day I have to block 5 new ones.
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. Thank you. :)
I wish this worked. I blocked several communities that are either not relevant / interesting to me or are in a language I don’t understand, yet I still see their posts in “All”.
For example, I blocked the Formula 1 community three times already.
Now we just need an option to block an entire instance. Not that I needed it so far, but think it would be good to have that option.
I’m on kbin and there is a way to do this on the desktop site at least. If I click on the domain it goes to a page viewing it with a block button. Maybe what you’re using has something similar?
I don’t think so, no. It is being talked a lot about Lemmy users that there’s no such option so far. Good to know kbin has it, tho. I really liked its UI
Sounds like you anticipate something happening (?) EDIT aah there’s the NSFW instance - no need to explain
I had to learn quick. All I kept seeing were a bunch of nakey young women and nakey anime!!
I will happily accept a blocklist for all US politics, anime, gaming and Marvel.
Thank you for this valuable information.
Instead, I set the communities I subscribe to as shows by default. When looking at my general interests, I sometimes press the option to show all the posts to see what’s happening in the world on different topics.
How ironic that when I clicked on the post I got that damned baseball stats bot.
I’ve had 8 baseball team communities that I have blocked so far. Fanaticus One, kiss my ass.
Here’s the list of bot communities I’m referring to:
[email protected], [email protected], Angels [email protected], Colorado [email protected], CHI [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
If you click on a post and get hijacked to baseball stats, click on the community your taken to and block it.
Can you block an instance?
Fanatacus One(https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected]) has 8 posts, I’ve blocked them all.
They have 33 communities, so I’m expecting more:
Fanaticus One of fanaticus.social moderates:
[email protected] White [email protected] NY [email protected] [email protected] New York [email protected] SF [email protected] [email protected] Red [email protected] Cleveland [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Miami [email protected] Tampa Bay [email protected] Toronto Blue [email protected] Minnesota [email protected] Texas [email protected] Angels [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CHI [email protected] [email protected] AZ [email protected] [email protected] Colorado [email protected] Motor City [email protected] KC [email protected]
On Jerboa you can also click the three dots on a post from that community and block it from there, no need to go to the page itself. I’ve already done a bunch this way.
