• Throwaway@lemm.ee
    456·
    1 year ago

    Soon ^tm

    Its in .19, the next release.

    Don’t worry, youll be able to block hexbear and lemmygrad shortly.

    • yhvr@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      The instance blocking in .19 only blocks posts from an instance, not comments.

      • TAG@lemmy.world
        162·
        1 year ago

        That is what I would want. If Lemmygrad users want to come to other instances, follow the rules, and engage in civil discussion, I would love to hear from them. I don’t care what instance a user uses to log in. I just don’t want to see their posts in my feed.

  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    1 year ago

    Certain apps offer this feature but lemmy itself doesn’t yet, I believe they’re working on it but had some issues implementing it

  • cholesterol@lemmy.wtf
    7·
    1 year ago

    I also wouldn’t mind filtering posts from users belonging to certain instances. But maybe blocking instances will be enough.

    • XbSuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The only gripe I have with connect, is it’s zoom function. It either zooms way too far, or barely at all.

  • jared@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can with kbin, and I think something was said about it in the upcoming lemmy release.

    • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Kbin’s instance blocking didn’t seem to be working for a while, instead it blocked users of instances at random (a few times I’ve seen a thread from a blocked instance but none of the comments from said instance show up).

      It might be working (better) now but it’s hard to tell exactly when it is or isn’t. Same with the language filter. Though random posts/threads (sidebar) doesn’t use filtering.

      EDIT: Yeah, I think instance blocking only blocks users of that instance, as if a user of one instance posts on a blocked instance their post still shows up. Or close, I guess it’s the domain that matters as someone else pointed out.

    • Maestro@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Kbin doesn’t have instance blocking (yet). It has domain blocking. But if you block a domain, you block all of the text posts and image posts since they point to that domain. But you will still see the link posts since they point somewhere else.

                • HelterSkeletor@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I mean yeah, some might use the feature to create an echo chamber for themselves and all the toxicity that can bring is a concern, the alternative is a user experience plagued with content you literally cannot read. I exclusively browse via an app, Google Translate isn’t an option. I have no problem with Germans, if they want to contribute to discussion on English speaking instances- great, I want to see their contributions. I’d just like the ability to cut content that I will never interact with.

                  The concern that people are going to block instances and complain about the death of Lemmy due to a lack of content feels a bit like a straw man. One could argue that the inability to control content they consume might drive people away and lead to the death of Lemmy. That seems just as plausible but equally unfounded.

                  I’m sympathetic to your concerns but if someone wants to dodge an instance they don’t want to view for whatever reason they should be able to do that. Blocking posts on an instance from showing up in your ‘all’ feed seems reasonable however, I agree, the members of that instance should be excluded from blanket blocks.

                  Edit- also, sorry you got downvoted. And I’ll look around for the language options. Thanks.

                  I’ve got “English” already set so not sure what I’m doing wrong.