With the many Reddit style shitposts appearing, I’m wondering if there’s a way for users to block certain communities or servers. Sync for Reddit made doing this easy -blocking the noise was the only reason I could use Reddit.
You can’t do it in wefwef, but for Lemmy backed instances if you go in to your settings link under your account, there’s a tab for “Blocks” in which you can block specific users and communities. You can’t block instances however. Basically you have to remember the name of the community and search for it there.
I agree a block button on the community would be better but at least there is some method for blocking.
You can’t do it in wefwef, but for Lemmy backed instances if you go in to your settings link under your account, there’s a tab for “Blocks” in which you can block specific users and communities. You can’t block instances however. Basically you have to remember the name of the community and search for it there.
I agree a block button on the community would be better but at least there is some method for blocking.
Kbin needs to have a block icon next to community links inside posts in the homepage. Going to the community, scrolling all the way down to the sidebar on mobile, then blocking it is just not convenient.
And being on fediverse, there's just so many communities with the same name. it starts to get tiring.
The defining, and exciting, feature of the Fediverse is it enables instances to try out different strategies to things like moderation. Duplicate communities is a side effect of that, but I think it will settle down. I'm expecting there will be a lot of small specialized instances for related topics, and people will broadly subscribe to communities on the instances they like.
You can block communities if you're using Kbin instances: just go to the magazine and select the "block" icon instead of the subscribe icon. The communities won't appear on any feed.
Blocking Domains does not really work unfortunately. You can block them alright as you would a user or a magazine, but it still appears in the feed. T suppose that's going to be fixed at some point.
On desktop at least, there is also the possibility to click on the user name in the top right corner and select “Settings”. There you can choose the tab “Blocks” and enter community names to block. Works pretty well for me. Blocked a bunch of communites and feel much more at home now.
I don’t know whether it’s possible to bulk-block communities, but if you click on an individual community, there’s a box on the right with the name of the community, Create a post and finally Block community. I’ve just clicked on the latter and it seems to work.
I can speak to Jerboa and on desktop. On Jerboa the block is in the 3 dots menu, in the upper right, on desktop it’s a big red button at the top right of the community. Also on desktop you can see all the communities on the instance in the communities button at the very top, next to the instance logo, it’ll be a bit quicker to mass block by just going down and blocking each community you don’t want to see, but you still have to do it one by one in each community. And you can just subscribe to a bunch of stuff and set your default settings to sort by what you’re subscribed to.
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