Is it possible to block entire instances? I see I can block by user or community, but not by instance.

This would be useful as there are some instances based around politics etc. that I don’t care about.

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      1 year ago

      Plausibly it should be possible for users to client side block instances as well. I don’t see any reason why not.

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    Currently the admins have to curate this for you through federation, although you can try and whack a mole individual communities from an instance. Heaps of people are asking for user level control of blocking instances and I hope it comes soon as there’s a couple instances I keep seeing federated into my feed that I find abhorrent, and this growth phase of Lemmy means new communities on those instances keep appearing.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah user level control for instance blocking is something we need unless instances start sharing defederation lists.

      Blocking communities isn’t the same because it only hides posts and not the bad users interacting elsewhere

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        1 year ago

        Oh I didn’t mean blocking users, to me a user’s home instance is a matter of convenience and not a cross for them to bear as a member of some perceived village.

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    This should be done on instance level but I’m not sure how I feel about that.

    If that is how it’s going to be, we will get a lot of small instances with each their own set of instance-blocking-rules. Some want the funny cat gifs instances but not the nazi instances. Some do not want the cat instances but do want the nazi instances but Als not xyz… Mayham

    In the end it will probably be like the way we interact with general websites: each user has their own set of websites they have bookmarked. Nobody is going through all the internet websites and sort by new.

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      1 year ago

      I think we’ll go the way of mastodon and email and have a few well maintained block lists for different groups.

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    It’d also be nice if you could pots without federation, or control the federation, to avoid brigading from other instances.