There are some servers that I want to not see in my feed. Instead of blocking each individual community, how do I block all communities on specific servers?

  • kiddblur@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’d love this to be a built in Lemmy feature. I see their value, but I want to block all of the instances that are just bots reposting Reddit links. There’s never any valuable discussion on those posts, and that’s why I’m here.

    • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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      1 year ago

      long before the reddit migration there was a lotide instance called goldandblack which was made up of the subreddit of the same name. It was largely a mirror of the posts on the subreddit. It looked neat at first but the effect was actually terrible since you’d get a flood of empty stories on your feed.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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      It’s on the issue list for the devs. Kinda low on the list though behind working on functionality and dealing with bugs that have been discovered with the huge influx of users.

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        Makes sense! I wish I knew rust so I could chip in but I don’t think my angular/dotnet skillset will be of much use, and I don’t really have the free time to pick up a new lang

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      1 year ago

      hate to say it, but this literally is the way… 🤣

      eta: ah fuck, you’re on lemmy-lemmy. kbin made this appear as if it originated on their server

  • Restaldt@lemmy.world
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    Right now the easiest option is probably to find an instance that isn’t federated with what you don’t want to see.

    Self hosting an instance may work

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    1 year ago

    This is not built into Lemmy at the moment so the only way to do it is browse using a 3rd party app/website that has added this feature.

    The only one I’m aware of at the moment is Connect for Lemmy on Android.

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    Maybe a dumb question back, but isn’t your feed only composed of the things you’ve subscribed to?

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      On your feed there are:

      Subscribed is what you said. Local is just your home Lemmy instance. All is everything (that wasn’t blocked).

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      My understanding is that your “all” feed is every fediverse instance. (Kinda the point) and your other feed is comprised only of your subscriptions.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s communities from other federated instances. But only ones that a user on your instance has already subscribed to. So use lemmyverse.net or something similar to search communities too.