There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they’re very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I’ve been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?

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    There’s a PR for it. Hopefully we get it on the next update.

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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.

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        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

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          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.

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      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.

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      Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments

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    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.

    https://lemmy.world/post/1457532

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      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

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        I only use FOSS apps. I am sure someday it will be added into Lemmy itself.

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    It’s ok, you can say hexbear. They know they are annoying and everyone hates them.

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      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.

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        That’s probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.

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          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

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        Oh hey it’s the guy that goes into threads and complains about le tankies without even talking about the post. Touch grass loser.

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          It’s so hard for you hexbears since you federated and met people who disagree with you.

          Someone asked for an example. I gave one. Seems fairly on topic to me.

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            Classic liberal lack of self awareness. You spent all your time in the reddit echo chamber and the first thing you do after stepping out is whining about “le tankies”. lmao.

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            You seem to be the one that doesn’t like hearing from people who disagree with you if you’re looking for ways to ingore entire instances based on your hurt feelings.

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              Hexbears are just trolls. They generally aren’t coming into threads to have real discussions (and when they make attempts at it they often seem confused about their own stated ideology) - the unstated goal is to be disruptive to deny “shit libs” a platform.

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            If you hate lemmygrad then I have bad news for you buddy. The guy who wrote the lemmy software is the same guy who runs lemmygrad. All of lemmy is “tankie bullshit”. I suggest you go back to reddit to be safe from us.

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              The guy who wrote the lemmy software is the same guy who runs lemmygrad. All of lemmy is “tankie bullshit”. I suggest you go back to reddit to be safe from us.

              TIL that open source software is inextricably tied to it’s creators political beliefs…

              Sorry bud, but despite tankies on this site being really fucking loud and argumentative, you’re drastically outnumbered by newer members who have no relation to lemmygrad or other tanky instances.

              No fediverse social media site “belongs” to it’s creator or their beliefs, that’s literally the whole point. If you want a site where it’s creators are able to enforce their beliefs on their users, maybe you should go back to traditional social media

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              Unless their politics is embedded in the software (it isn’t) I’m perfectly able to separate the utility of said software from the views of the creators.

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                I mean, there is a hard coded word filter which doesn’t allow you to use the scientifically correct term for a female dog. Which is pretty wild.

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                  This actually hasn’t been true for several patches now. The slur filter is no longer hard-coded, but instead is customizable on an instance-to-instance basis. This change sure doesn’t stop people from complaining about the (nonexistent) “hard-coded slur filter” though!

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          Hexbear is far more obnoxious than lemmygrad imo. At least lemmygrad doesn’t turn every thread into a middle school “#random” message board by filling it with cringe jpeg emojis.

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            Exactly. Hexbears posting culture diverged off into its own Darwinian branch and getting back to wider federation has been a bit of a wake up call for both camps.

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    While I’m upset that OP doesn’t want to see hexbear posts, this is actually a good idea. It’s practically impossible to block an instance’s communities one by one. I just want to be able to filter them out from the “All” view. I have no issues with individual users’ comments showing up. Federation is awesome but I’d like to have the tools to customize “All” to my liking. (edit: Alternatively consider adding another customizable view mode next to subscribed/local/all)

    Also please consider the suggestion posted here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3744501

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      That seems like a pretty cool idea - though I do think there would also need to be a push for mobile apps to support a similar concept. While I personally don’t, I am sure there are plenty of people who only browse the Fediverse on mobile.

      Also on a side note, those are some pretty good additions to Hexbear’s code of conduct.

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    Am I dumb because I’m on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.

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    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.

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        If you’re using an app, both connect and sync for lemmy have instance filtering.

        The caveat is that it’s filtering, which is in-app only. But it works quite well in both.