Many newer Lemmy users still don’t know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.
This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.
- Open your profile
Settingspage:
- Switch from the
Settingstab to theBlockstab
- From this page you can block by
User,Instance, orCommunity
That’s all there is to it.
Edit: No offense to !truecomics@midwest.social for appearing in my community block list. It’s just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.
Timely info, thanks!
Bye bye hexbear…
I sought out and discovered this feature existed only last week right after I wondered if I could block all of hexbear.
Blocking an instance only blocks the communities and you have to block the users individually when they post on communities of other instances.
I’m hoping for an additional option to block all users of an instance to be added.
I would like to have an option that works like the instance block feature on connect. It blocks the instance and then puts a “comment hidden due to blocked instance: exampleinstance.net” which lets you know that its there and gives you the option to unhide that comment if you want to know what it says.
You also need to block everyone from Hexbear. I don’t have the same reaction to everyone from ML (though I have that instance blocked too), but after I interact with them, they usually get blocked anyway.
How dare you block Everett True comics
You can also do it for individual users or communities from their respective landing pages after clicking on their name (or sidebar for communities) which often time is more intuitive to do immediately when you run across some particular bad stinky bullshit.
Another good non-offensive example is communities that speak a different language than you.
/c/ich_iel, you all seem very nice, but I never know what the hell you are yammering on about. BLOCKED.
Ich_iel bothers me because you shouldn’t have to block it. Lemmy has language filters built in. You should never see anything in a language you haven’t told Lemmy you speak.
But ich_iel doesn’t use that filter. Their users leave their posts’ language seeing as unspecified. So everyone ends up seeing it.
Yep. I chalk this up to some poor advice of people telling new users to use unspecified instead of their language in their posts. You can’t really choose to not see unspecified language posts because then you wouldn’t see anything because hardly anyone picks a language.
Edit: to be clear, I believe that everyone should use unspecified and all languages they speak as content they see but mark all content they post as the language they’re using in that content. If the onboarding experience was better about making people always use their language of choice for content they post then I wouldn’t necessarily recommend people include unspecified in the content they see.
Actually, the “unspecified” rule is left over from lemmy in it’s 0.17 days, because there were severe UI bugs that would frequently blackhole all content on a user’s side if it was set to a specific language. I think it’s all patched now, and you can select both a language and Unspecified now without nuking your visibility, but the habit is entrenched and most people never set their language default after they joined.
Oh no… I cannot block my own instance 😭
