As a stop gap, I've just blocked all their communities.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Not that I know of, but it should be added in for those who don't want to interact with people from Hexbear. If people have the freedom to block an instance for themselves it would expand the decentralization that Lemmy is built on, since people don't have to move to those instances to block out Hexbear.
I've read that blocking the Hexbear domain is a solution to this, but that isn't a proper solution, since those who aren't tech-literate would have a pretty hard time doing that, so a first-party solution would be the best.
With sync for lemmy you can block instances by adding it to the instances filter.
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It currently depends on which client you're using. The devs are working on building it into the server side, but at least 'connect for lemmy' on android allows you to block instances yourself.
I kind of like it just for the batshit, teenage-level stupid takes but I wouldn't be sad if they went away.
This kind of thing reminds me of the early 2010s /r/atheism. There's definitely some meaningful discussion to be had, but it quickly got overwhelmed by edgy teenagers and culminated in the infamous "In this moment I am euphoric"" quote and things simmered down.
I expect there's going to be some batshit insane development in this space that'll make things calmer. However looking at the state of the world it might be WW3 making things calmer because most of the edgy teenagers will get drafted /s.
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I can’t see hexbear posts and I was told it’s because my instance is lemmy.world
Yep, SJW never defederated from hexbear, hexbear just whitelisted us two days ago so they were the reason why we didn't see them before that.
In your case your instance is defederated from them so you'll never see their content no matter what their instance does.
Yeah lemmy.world defederated them a while back. They defederated dbzero too so I guess you can't read this either.
They didn’t defederate dbzero, they just block the piracy communities
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If you are on browser using unlock origin, you can use custom cosmetic filters like sh.itjust.works##div.post-listing:has-text(/hexbear.net/). Not perfect and does not hide comments, but I've been happy enough with just this.
You'll have to block the communities one by one. But it's not that many, blocking the 10 biggest ones should be sufficient.
I heavily endorse the block feature. It's not reddit level of activity, after blocking enough you barely notice them. And I only block the most annoying users.
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