this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
92 points (98.9% liked)

/kbin meta

639 readers
1 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 1 year ago
 
top 24 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ideally, id also be able to block an entire instance as well, such as the country/language specific ones where i dont speak the language.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was literally looking for a way to do that when I came across this post. We REALLY need a way to filter out communities we don't need.

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

Do you not use subscriptions...?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

can only speak for myself, but I generally like to browse through everything, there's always some interesting things popping up on magazines I haven't subscribed to yet. I think subscriptions is more like a personal feed and "all" is like browsing. and blocking stuff is- well, to block out stuff I'm really not interested in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would feel that would be what the federation section would be used for as well

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

What does that On/Off toggle do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried it, but I assume it would show you only local content Kbin instead of including whatever users or content originated on another instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Im not sure it does anything quite yet, as kbin is in early alpha really. As nothing also shows up for Instances either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a section for blocked "domains" in your block settings but I've yet to figure out how to block entire instances

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And then there is a block button in the right side panel, next to the Subscribe link. At least, for desktop...

For mobile (even in "desktop site" view), it seems to appear beneath the list of posts/etc rather than as a right side panel. Just use find-in-page and search for "Subscribe"; should be right next to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On mobile, you can tap the hamburger button to quickly check th sidebar as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have sadly just turned federation off since there isn't a easy way block other instances yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is definitely needed. I am browsing all/active just so I can gather up some magazines I'm interested in but I'm hit with a ton of non-English mags/channels. I'm blocking them as I see them but there are a ton. It's all part of the growing pains for sure so I'm not going to be impatient about it or anything, but this is a needed feature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I feel like having the block button constantly appearing next to every magazine name might be overkill. I'd be happy to have an interface like ...

  • Block

    • Block User
    • Block Magazine
    • Block Instance

... under the "more" menu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love this idea. Simple, elegant and not prone to accidental inputs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

with all the garbage out there, this was probably my most favourite function on reddit, filtered out like 80% of the content I wasn't interested in. I think going to a magazine everytime just to block it is just a pain in the ass

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

that'd definitely be useful. I haven't really blocked any magazines yet, but it would be a good way to clean up the main "all" feed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wish I could hide individual posts that I'm not interested in. Reddit and Squabbles have this, and it makes cleaning up the junk from my feed a lot more convenient.

[–] _number8_ 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync for Lemmy does this -- it's only on android & unfortunately it doesn't seem like the 'hide' marker persists across devices. that seems to be the issue with everything i've tried

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think a useful option would be if someone could code a pop up dialog showing the magazines info (with the subscribe and block button) that appears when your cursor hovers over the name of the magazines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You already can! Just open the side bar (over by subscribe/unsubscribe) and click on the stop sign icon to block that magazine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would think the best course to block a magazine would be on the magazine itself, or like in your screenshot maybe have block options under "more" to prevent accidental clicks. Or add some more whitespace between the title of the magazine and the block option.

load more comments
view more: next ›