Many newer Lemmy users still don’t know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.
This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.
- Open your profile
Settingspage:
- Switch from the
Settingstab to theBlockstab
- From this page you can block by
User,Instance, orCommunity
That’s all there is to it.
Edit: No offense to !truecomics@midwest.social for appearing in my community block list. It’s just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.
How dare you block Everett True comics
He’s in for a walloping
If only we could have a keywords tab right there.
Thank you!
Another good non-offensive example is communities that speak a different language than you.
/c/ich_iel, you all seem very nice, but I never know what the hell you are yammering on about. BLOCKED.
Ich_iel bothers me because you shouldn’t have to block it. Lemmy has language filters built in. You should never see anything in a language you haven’t told Lemmy you speak.
But ich_iel doesn’t use that filter. Their users leave their posts’ language seeing as unspecified. So everyone ends up seeing it.
Anyone tried actually talking to their admins?
we did but they spoke german
Timely info, thanks!
Bye bye hexbear…
You also need to block everyone from Hexbear. I don’t have the same reaction to everyone from ML (though I have that instance blocked too), but after I interact with them, they usually get blocked anyway.
I sought out and discovered this feature existed only last week right after I wondered if I could block all of hexbear.
Blocking an instance only blocks the communities and you have to block the users individually when they post on communities of other instances.
I’m hoping for an additional option to block all users of an instance to be added.
