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
Settings
page:
- Switch from the
Settings
tab to theBlocks
tab
- 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.
- tenchiken ( @tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 38•1 month ago
Timely info, thanks!
Bye bye hexbear…
- cheeseandrice ( @cheeseandrice@lemm.ee ) 15•1 month ago
I sought out and discovered this feature existed only last week right after I wondered if I could block all of hexbear.
- snooggums ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) English6•1 month ago
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.
- Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 month ago
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.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 3•1 month ago
There’s about 15% of .ml that is unaware, and are pretty regular. And then there’s the rest that make you go, “oh… Hm…”
- Monstrosity ( @Monstrosity@lemm.ee ) English15•1 month ago
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.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 16•1 month ago
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.
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 8•1 month ago
Anyone tried actually talking to their admins?
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•1 month ago
we did but they spoke german
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 2•1 month ago
Shock 😂
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English6•1 month ago
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.
- empireOfLove2 ( @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 month ago
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.
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 month ago
Actually, it’s on the mods. If mods configure communities to only the expecte language without undefined, all the posts will be tagged with that language
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) 4•1 month ago
I would try to reach out to the mods again. I remember doing it once, and someone said they had changed it, but I guess they forgot to remove “undefined”
- empireOfLove2 ( @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 14•1 month ago
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.
Good point, thanks.
- curbstickle ( @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 month ago
And the easiest way to handle blocking in many apps too, quick and easy peasy.
- graphito ( @graphito@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 month ago
Oh no… I cannot block my own instance 😭
- aaaaace ( @aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•1 month ago
If only we could have a keywords tab right there.
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) 4•1 month ago
- aaaaace ( @aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•1 month ago
Thank you!