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Can I block entire instances? (self.lemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by FantasticFox to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boredtortoise 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boredtortoise 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They can always choose an instance which aligns with better behavior if they don't really belong to the bad ones