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I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I'm missing too much good content.

I'm open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Lemmy.ml and hexbear were the first two I blocked and have zero regrets.

I blocked a few others because the content didn't interest me and my preference is to browse on All instead of Subscribed so I can find content in communities I did not know existed. For example I blocked lemmynsfw because I didn't want the content to come up while browing in public.

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to kinkshame/judge (while judging) but lemmynsfw is super weird. There's like 50 celebrity or more communities all ran by one guy who uploads like one picture or 50 in a row. I just browse by all but the NSFW filter protects me from seeing a celebrity every 10th post.

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s why I run 2 different Lemmy apps. One for work and regular browsing. And a second one for those fun NSFW times.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

I have thought about that and wondered: how would child comments under a blocked user be handled? If I was on Instance_A and able to block Instance_B to no longer see comments from those users, what about the other Instance_A users (who have not blocked Instance_B) who reply to Instance_B comments on an Instance_A thread? Would I still see those Instance_A comments, and the Instance_B comments in the comment chain just appear blank or something? Or would the entire comment chain, starting at the Instance_B comment, just not get displayed to you at all?

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my experience all comments in the chain after the blocked user are not displayed.

[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just blocked individual hexbear and lemmygrad users that were annoying (posting pig anuses or dogpiling/gish galloping/whatabouting). Took a lot of blocking, but a few hundred blocks later later, most of the hexbears and tankies left are pretty chill. I don't want to end up in a bubble and only hear opinions I already agree with. I think I did block one far right instance entirely, cause I don't value the ideas of bigots and fascists. Can't remember who it was though.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

There is an option for that, its called Defederation

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I want to block the users as a group even if the instance at which I am registered does not defederate.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

Some apps let you do that. Sync, for example, let's you block instances (users included) on the client side.