Howdy, so while I’m able to block all posts from hexbear.net accounts, it seems there’s no way for me to block all their comments on instances they’re federated with. I’d rather not leave some of the communities that are still federated with them, but I would like to be able to block or hide all of their comments in the threads.
Is there any way to do this yet? Or do I just need to move to an instance that’s defederated from them?
Connect for lemmy allows instance blocking. I don’t see any posts from hexbear and their comments show as hidden unless I tap to show the contents.
Interesting, maybe I’ll make the switch. I’m on sync for now, and it’s in-app blocking features leave a lot to be desired
Voyager also has instance blocking if you wanna give that one a shot too.
Please for the love of God tell me how I’ve looked at settings menus and googled y and nothing of value comes up
AFAIK, your home server would need to be fully defederated with an instance for you to stop seeing comments from users there. Instance blocking only blocks posts from there and I think communities hosted there. Only other way is to block those users individually which is a pain.
Locking as this post violates rule 5.
If the goal is to block out all progressives, won’t you also have to block individual users who are not of that instance, but are still active within?
I have blocked plenty of high profile progressive instances, hexbear, blahaj, and more.
I didn’t do it because they were progressive, I did it because I can’t stand the behavior of hexbear communities. I also got my feed completely taken over by posts from blahaj instances. I am fine with the trans community, if you figure out that you are trans, fine, I will do my best to respect you and your identity, but I don’t want my feed taken over by posts about a single topic.
Then there are instances that specifically cater to a single language I don’t speak, I block them right away.
Finally, NSFW communities like lemmynsfw.com, I use my phone at work quite a bit, and I don’t even want to risk opening a NSFW picture at work, so I filter the entrie instances dedicated to NSFW content.
