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Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gentle reminder that blocking the entire Lemmy.ml instance has made this place a lot less … tankie

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can you do that yet without your instance just entirely defederating?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yes. Go to: settings > blocks > scroll down

At the end of the page, below your blocked users and communities, there is a list of instances, which you blocked. You can add instances there aswell.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Please be aware that user-level instance blocking is not the same as instance-level defederation. User-level instance blocking is equivalent to blocking all the communities from that instance. AFAIK you'll still see posts and comments from the blocked instance in other communities. More problematically, the blocked instance still influences your feed via its votes.

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

I'm using thunder, on mobile. All I know is I am on lemmy.world, any idea how to modify what instances I am connected to with that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

On Thunder, you can also long press on a comment or post, and it will bring up an action menu. If you click the "Instance" option there, you should see a "Block Instance" option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Account > gear icon / settings > User/Community/Instance Blocks > Instances

You can manage your blocked instances there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sync has it as an app option, and several of the apps I was using prior to sync had something similar.

This has vastly improved my experience on Lemmy's Top 6 Hours

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Hey that's my go to default sort as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thunder has it too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No. User-level instance blocking is not the same as instance-level defederation. User-level instance blocking is equivalent to blocking all the communities from that instance. AFAIK you'll still see posts and comments from the blocked instance in other communities. More problematically, the blocked instance still influences your feed via its votes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Most apps have a instance block in the settings.