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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] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.

Well that's disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh - that's really frustrating especially since they must know this isn't what everyone actually wants. Let us have personal defederation - it would solve the whole defederation controversy in one stroke. There would no longer be any reason for instances to make such huge decisions on behalf of all it's users, and individuals can choose to disengage with toxic communities on their own

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get why you would want that, but I think that would end up causing other weird issues. Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain? Would it cut off the thread there, or would there just be a comment missing?

I'll take the simple solution over no solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain?

Presumably, the same thing that happens if you block that user individually.

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

I'd expect "Removed" or "Blocked" or whatever.