Submitted 1 year ago by Furball@sh.itjust.works to main@sh.itjust.works
I don’t like to see so many political posts in all and so many weird images in comment sections
Yeah, I have blocked hexbear & numerous weird gay/fetish porn communities. Make sure you’re logged in. Click on the post & navigate to the community…then…towards the top before all the posts, there’s a bunch of options. One being to ‘block’. I have to scroll to find it.
I also use sync. And i also use the option to block certain words in titles. If you use this list, your feed gets a lot less toxic. Don’t judge me from this list, it works for me. Image
Haha, “America” 😂
Thanks for the advice! I think I’ll follow suit.
I absolutely will judge you for that list. You don’t want to hear about capitalism and climate change? Like the two biggest things that are going to affect our future. Lots of people are unaware of the water they swim in to some extent, but to intentionally avoid it like this is another level of intentional ignorance.
There’s some real vibes here of someone who’s so privileged that current politics already serves them and they feel like they can just ignore it. Self-described “apolitical” people are still political, it’s just that their politics are usually awful because they don’t think about them.
If I ever thought of using a filter like this - and I really don’t think I ever will - the fact that you’re the kind of person to use it makes me even less likely to consider it. I never want to shove my head in the sand to that extent.
Go ahead and block me for saying this, I wouldn’t want to make you feel slightly uncomfortable for the few seconds it takes to scroll past. It’s better if you just don’t know I exist. One less voice to antagonise you with reality.
I think a lot of these things are further reaching problems than first world 😅
In sync you can block entire instances, no need to block every single community…
The spectre of pigpoop balls haunting y’all
As a stop gap, I’ve just blocked all their communities.
You say that like you were assailed when you were down in the posting trenches concern trolling for hours
I feel like I need to respond to things I feel are harmful, like tankies. And that’s bad for me if I do it too much. So I blocked the communities so I won’t see them and be bothered. That seemed like a reasonable solution to me.
I try everyday but it just keeps popping up in my feed. Someone help.
Not that I know of, but it should be added in for those who don’t want to interact with people from Hexbear. If people have the freedom to block an instance for themselves, it would expand the decentralization that Lemmy is built on, since people don’t have to move to those instances to block out Hexbear.
I’ve read that blocking the Hexbear domain is a solution to this, but that isn’t a proper solution, since those who aren’t tech-literate would have a pretty hard time doing that, so a first-party solution would be the best.
Amazing thread, nothing to add
any time i see a weird gif reaction i just block.
it gets repetitive, but that’s the way it is for now.
at some point i might just move away from shitjustworks to an instance that actually cares.
It currently depends on which client you’re using. The devs are working on building it into the server side, but at least ‘connect for lemmy’ on android allows you to block instances yourself.
I do have to say, a lot of you are incredibly boring posters. There’s no pizazz, no razzmatazz. You have a whole new space before you to take your posting where ever you want and you treat it a comment section to a community chore wheel.
I think if you are active in communities related to news and politics you’re going to see political and news related posts. It’s kind of a part of the deal.
Extremist propaganda shouldn’t be “part of the deal”
It’s kind of a big part of politics. It isnt politics if it isn’t involved enough to contend with propaganda and extremism. That’d mostly just be entertainment, like your typical late night TV coverage of news and politics.
Semantic, I know, but worth pointing out.
yes, but I’m not telling you how
Tell me if you figure it out. I want a hexbear account for the memes but I don’t actually want to deal with them.
Their memes aren’t good
I can’t see hexbear posts and I was told it’s because my instance is lemmy.world
Yep, SJW never defederated from hexbear, hexbear just whitelisted us two days ago so they were the reason why we didn’t see them before that.
In your case your instance is defederated from them so you’ll never see their content no matter what their instance does.
Yeah lemmy.world defederated them a while back. They defederated dbzero too so I guess you can’t read this either.
They didn’t defederate dbzero, they just block the piracy communities
I’m on lemmy.world and can read it just fine…?
I want to know too
Anti communist at shit just works…
I bet you’re a well adjusted member of society…
Nah they aren’t just communists. Unless you think Russia is also communist 🤡
Connect for Lemmy app has a block instance option.
You’ll have to block the communities one by one. But it’s not that many, blocking the 10 biggest ones should be sufficient.
I just block the users as they show up. Already got the most prolific posters; now I just see the occasional comment on posts outside of that instance.
Most people won’t bother doing that, they’ll just go back to another social media platform.
Ok, well I was answering the OP not talking to users who would find that to be an insufferable roadblock.
It is in fact not normal to respond to a person asking to block political talk from his feed by asking them to commit suicide.
Thank you for being the case in point
Thank you more.
touch grass pls bordiga-despair
I did not literally mean it.
I heavily endorse the block feature. It’s not reddit level of activity, after blocking enough you barely notice them. And I only block the most annoying users.
The problem is that there apparently currently is a limit of 1000 blocks per user. With the inevitable spambots and trolls going to appear over the years it is annoying having to spend a lot of those on these guys.
Nope. We’re living in your house.
If you’re using the connect app (if not, you should try it!), just tap the three dots any post you see by them, and click “block instance.” Easy peasy.
On Lemmy? No, though that is in the pipeline.
Kbin allows you to block entire instances though, if you're not averse to making a new account on a different instance.
Wait how do I do this
Go to kbin.social/d/<instanceurl> ("d" for Domain), e.g. https://kbin.social/d/hexbear.net. In there on the sidebar you'll see the Follow button; next to it will be the block button. Hit the block button and that's that.
Works on any instance running kbin, though there's only 4 right now IIRC.
Kbin.social is a big one that is run by the developer if I recall correctly.
Connect for Lemmy has a block instance feature
it’s a fugazi
MrGerrit@feddit.nl 1 year ago
With sync for lemmy you can block instances by adding it to the instances filter.
fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
doesn’t work for comments though
Facky@hexbear.net 1 year ago
To block comments you’d have to block each individual user.