• TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    On Reddit I’ve found most of the news about the big social networks is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

    I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.

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        Click on their name, on the upper right of the page you end up on will be two buttons, “Send Message” and “Block User”. Hit the latter.

        And welcome aboard! (I’m a fairly new Lemmy immigrant as well)

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        People tend to call everything fediverse “Lemmy” which causes some confusion.

        Kbin has the options to block people, magazines/communities, and entire instances. Hopefully Lemmy will get the block feature because it is awesome for the few times it is needed.

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            Can you also block communities/magazines and instances on Lemmy now?

            I probably grouped the three together when it was one or two of those levels.

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              Yes, you can block communities. Instances are a little more complicated since that’s defederation and happens at the instance level, but since you won’t see posts from communities you aren’t subbed to that’s less of an issue.

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                I have seen posts from instances with communities I’m not subbed to on the kbin “All” list because someone else on the same kbin server subbed to it. It makes discovering new communities very easy since I don’t need to do all the leg work on my own.

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              You can block communities and users on Lemmy. You can’t block instances, but that wouldn’t make sense since you don’t see their content unless you go there or subscribe to a community. Maybe blanket blocking users from an instance would be useful.

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                Not sure if Lemmy is the same, but my understanding of the fediverse structure was that if someone subbed to a magazine/community on another instance then it would show up in All for everyone logged into the same instance. On kbin I have never needed to sub to anything on lemmy.world or beehaw or whatever because someone else subbed to it first and it just shows up on my All feed.

                A mild example of blocking an instance would be if there was one that was entirely in a language I don’t know then I have the option to block the instance instead of playing whack a mole with each magazine/community to hide the content that I can’t read.

                • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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                  On Lemmy you only see local communities by default. On Mastodon you see posts from instances that the admin linked. Idunno about kbin etc