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Can we block entire instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they're very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I've been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is there a way for an individual user to do something similar, short of spinning up an entire instance myself?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Will blocking an instance also block all their users?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use connect, and any posts from a user in a blocked instance still pops up with a message saying what instance they're on and that it's blocked, but I can click on it to reveal the comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, I'd like that.

I don't usually want to block entire instances, but when I do, it's usually because of a few bad apples. If I can tell a conversation has some merit to it, I'll want to read it, even if it's from an instance worth a large amount of bad apples.

So yeah, let me search for communities in blocked instances, reveal comments from posters in blocked instances, etc. In other words, let me opt in to seeing content I've blocked if I specifically request it