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FAQ
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When version 0.19 arrives, you will be able to block any instance you want (see pinned post in !lemmy@lemmy.ml)
For now you need to block them in the app you are using. If you're mostly using it on the website, unfortunately you will need to manually block the communities you don't like.
Hooray!
Absolutely. No more political bullshit from Hexbear, Kbin and Lemmygrad!
I'm just sitting here and wait for the release.
Nobody on Hexbear or Lemmygrad is actually a socialist; they just blindly defend any country that claims to be or once was socialist
They defend right wing authoritarian counties ran by creepy warlord oil tycoons who pal around in super yachts. Ya, they have no ideology or principles. Theyβre edgy low information internet bullies that really, really like a particular podcast.
Hexbear and grad speak for themselves. As a kbin user, what's the kbin gunk and where's it coming from?
Mostly there's a big issue atm where moderator actions on Kbin don't federate to Lemmy. Which means if you get spam on Kbin, mods deal with it quickly, Lemmy users still see it. There has been...a lot of spam (and worse) finding its way onto the Lemmy side.
Ernest is working on it.
Yeah, that's a known issue. I assume that's getting prioritized, now that Ernest is back. I thought Dirk meant specific communities or "politically" motivated trolling as from the others.
Is there a, I don't know, wiki or something with cultural information about the different instances and what they're like?
I know it would probably be next to impossible to keep it from being biased in some way, but I kind of feel like the new kid in school, and the school has over 100 different cliches that I have to figure out and avoid or whatever.
Definitely an understandable feeling when you see these kinds of conversations but honestly most instances are just full of relatively normal folks talking about relatively normal things, especially the bigger ones since they have such a diverse user base. The main "bad" ones to know about are Lemmygrad and Hexbear for being very politics-focused. Then Beehaw for being a bit of a walled garden that prefers not to mix too much with the rest of the Threadiverse. There was one called exploding-heads too that was mostly just full of trolls, but I think they gave up on Lemmy and went somewhere else.
Some that stand out for more wholesome reasons are places like slrpunk.net (solarpunk / environmentalism stuff), mander.xyz (lots of awesome sciencey communities).
Most make it very obvious what they are before you sign up, like there's yiffit.net for furries, lemmy.blahaj.zone for LGBT, ani.social for anime, then things like literature.cafe, startrek.website, programming.dev, (cough cough) lemmynsfw etc are obvious from the names.
Ok I started this comment thinking there were only a couple to mention but actually you're right a list somewhere might be good! https://join-lemmy.org/instances is supposed to be that, but most don't list much useful info really.
Until proper support arrives (Lemmy 0.19 and... whenever it's meant to appear on kbin, which currently even errors trying to block a certain hexbear community), I just made a few filters. Unfortunately they are on my other machine. Fortunately they are plain old uBlock Origin selectors, and not that hard to make. The rough points:
On kbin, posts on the front page, magazine (community) pages etc are article tags, containing links to the user and community. That link will always end with /u/@someone@someplace or /m/somewhere@someplace. As a result you can do stuff like block article.entry:has(a.user-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"]) (posts by all hexbear denizens) article.entry:has(a.magazine-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"]) (posts by anyone to hexbear communities) - this is untested off the top of my dome, syntax might be broken.
I don't know how it works in Lemmy, presumably not that differently.
Doesn't work sadly. Anyone smarter than me can fix this?
I had an issue blocking a certain community (on kbin) and was then able to block the domain. I did not really want to block the whole domain but since it was erring on the magazine and I found that one particularly annoying I finally blocked the domain.
Domain block supposedly doesn't work that way. Or at least not properly. I don't remember why - it might be that "domain" refers to the link and not the community, as on Reddit. Instance level blocking is supposed to be the "proper" fix here - when it arrives.
yeah honestly im not sure if domain blocking is working. I was blocking many non english ones because I lack linguistic skills and many times the magazine would still show. it sorta stopped but that is when the language option was added.
Witch app do you use? Some apps let you block instances, but I'm not familiar with how. I just blocked all the communities I came across.
Avelon. Would rather block them all in one swoop!
Sync let's you filter out entire instances
Is there a Sync for iOS?
Memmy for iOS allows instance level blocking in the settings.
No, Jimmybigsausage, no there isn't
Is there a way to block mobile users from the website?
Apologies if this isn't what you mean, not quite sure what you're getting at with "mobile users".
But if your mobile app doesn't have blocking functionality yet it should at least have "open in browser" or equivalent wording in a menu somewhere, so you can open the current user profile or community in the web view and block it that way.
I use the boost client. Just go to your settings and add the instance you want to block. User experience was immediately 1000% better
