The two top entries on lemmy.world sorted by hot as of a few minutes ago were a porn link on a porn community (nothing against porn per se, but I don’t want to see it on the front page) and a bot post to some kind of bot link community. I see the “block user” button but I don’t particularly care to see anything from those communities, so blocking the individual poster doesn’t help much. I could actually visit the community in order to block it, but that sort of defeats the purpose of blocking. And I know of “Hide NSFW” but I’m not particularly anti-NSFW, I just don’t want to see it unintentionally.
So it would be useful to have “block community” as an option along with “block user” in the little buttons underneath the post.
As a broader policy matter, I’d be cool with blocking NSFW from the front page altogether (it would still be available within communities of course). But I understand such a decision would want discussion for and against.
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Thanks, yeah, or maybe the devs will see it here on lemmy.ml. I’d rather not make an account on that Microsoft site just to file a feature request. I find it unfortunate that Lemmy is hosted there while at the same time unironically mocking “embrace, extend, extinguish” in its own memes community, heh.
I think there’s a setting to not see NSFW content. Could also just be a jerboa thing tho.
Yes I mentioned that, I don’t want to use the setting to hide all NSFW content everywhere. I am ok with NSFW content in places other than the front page. Even on the front page, so far it looks like enough to be able to block the porn communities as they show up there. I don’t know of any that I would visit on purpose.
I also brought this up in my Jerboa write-up, but I notice it also appears in the web interface, so I started a thread here.
That’s a sitewide setting, most apps and the main site have it.
I didn’t notice a setting in Jerboa, and the porn was visible on the front page of lemmy.world. I don’t want “hide NSFW” which hides it everywhere. I only want to hide it from the front page. If an on-topic post in some relevant community happens to be NSFW, I still want to see it.
You are also able to block communities, I have done this already.
The only way I see to block a community is to visit the community first, which is an annoying interruption because of the additional screen navigation, plus you end up ironically visiting the very community you want to block. So I’m asking a way to block the community after seeing the main page link. That is, add a “block community” button similar to the existing “block user” button. The community name and instance (lemmynsfw.com) together are usually informative enough to tell me whether I want to block.
Okay I see.
I remember some weeks/months ago, there was no button to block the community in the community page, but it was possible to block communities regardless, so blocking from the community page isn’t the only option.
If you go to your user settings, there should be two tabs: Settings and Blocks. You want to click on “Blocks”. There you can block users and communities without having to visit their respective pages.
I guess the ability to block communities from their page was added in response to the many people asking how to block communities. Or maybe because it’s simply better UX having the ability to block stuff without having to move around much.
Yup, jerboa has this. As I browse and see communities that aren’t English I can block the entire community. It’s under the three dots.
