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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      Presumably it’d just work just like when that user is blocked, no? Which I admit leads to slightly janky behavior, but nothing unusable