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This doesn't seem to be an app setting but something lemmy.word is filtering. What's the point of hiding but not blocking, and why this filter at all?

I heard Lemmy modding is "open", so is there some way to track and see why something like this is done?

Edit: see comments, it was actually an app setting but not something I changed/applied myself.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you are using the connect app, this is because you blocked the reddthat instance. You can access your settings to see blocked instances/communities/users.

[–] parachaye 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I checked again and you're right! I was looking under the filters heading but there's a separate block list heading.

I didn't actively block reddthat but I accidentally setup an account name and deleted and replaced it...I think deleting the account might have added reddthat to the block list, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same happened with me. I blocked an instance without realizing. My guess is that it's either a bug when block instance was being implemented or I just stumbled on the wrong option, since they are close to each other.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This doesn’t seem to be an app setting

You might want to edit your original post to correct this, then.

[–] byrona 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish there was a way to still see comments from those that you blocked, I don't care about those. I just don't want to see posts from blocked instances on my feed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hi Connect dev here. That's coming soon (or out now if you're on the beta).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran into this just now.

I had blocked feddit.de, because I don't speak German and didn't want to see German posts in my feed. It turns out that it blocks comments from the instance as well, so I'm going to un-block it and go back to manually filtering communities as they pop up.

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

Does anyone know how language filters work? I know you can set a language for your post and you can set what languages to see posts in, but is there like an instance-wide default language setting? Or a community setting? This wouldn't be a problem if german-speaking feddit communities were set to have German as the default language of their posts.

[–] ilovesatan 4 points 1 year ago

Bumping because I'm also curious.