There's a PR for it. Hopefully we get it on the next update.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.
Well that's disappointing.
Ugh - that's really frustrating especially since they must know this isn't what everyone actually wants. Let us have personal defederation - it would solve the whole defederation controversy in one stroke. There would no longer be any reason for instances to make such huge decisions on behalf of all it's users, and individuals can choose to disengage with toxic communities on their own
I get why you would want that, but I think that would end up causing other weird issues. Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain? Would it cut off the thread there, or would there just be a comment missing?
I'll take the simple solution over no solution.
Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain?
Presumably, the same thing that happens if you block that user individually.
I'd expect "Removed" or "Blocked" or whatever.
Cool!
That's awesome! This is much needed.
Connect for lemmy let's you do thus as well. User, Community, or instance.
This is nice, but not quite the same. Blocks per app are useful, but it’s even nicer when you can have blocks per user. Like I want to block lemmynsfw.com on this account, but not on another account. Right now my solution is using 2 apps.
Through sync for lemmy, you can filter out a whole instance.
Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments
Not yet, someone requested this feature and I would like it to to block the NSFW porn instances. I do have NSFW enabled but I still see pictures of SFW girls in my feed from NSFW instances and I would like to just block that stuff from those adult only instances.
I not for lemmy.world blocking or deferating instances in general. But this feature gives the user the choice to block instances while others can allow content from instsnces to flow into their feed if they wish.
One day - social media will break up NSFW tags into actual useful warning tags - so we can mute porn without blocking movie spoilers or troubling news articles and shit like that
Connect lets you block whole instances
I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.
It's ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.
Will blocking an instance also block all their users?
I use connect, and any posts from a user in a blocked instance still pops up with a message saying what instance they're on and that it's blocked, but I can click on it to reveal the comment.
That's probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.
Yup, I'd like that.
I don't usually want to block entire instances, but when I do, it's usually because of a few bad apples. If I can tell a conversation has some merit to it, I'll want to read it, even if it's from an instance worth a large amount of bad apples.
So yeah, let me search for communities in blocked instances, reveal comments from posters in blocked instances, etc. In other words, let me opt in to seeing content I've blocked if I specifically request it
Can you name these instances? For research purposes.
Hexbear - tankie bullshit.
Am I dumb because I'm on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.
On the contrary, I'm super glad to find out I can block the posts of a community without generalizing about the quality of its users.