This seems like such a (relatively) simple fix, I’m surprised it hasn’t been implemented yet. I’m almost tempted to try writing a PR of my own at this point.
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bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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kakes@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
goddamnpipes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You may already be comfortable with another app or the web version of Lemmy, but I recommend ‘Connect for Lemmy’ if you’re looking for instance blocking. It allows you to block instances as a user.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]goddamnpipes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, you’re right, Connect is just for Android. Though I do remember hearing of an iOS Lemmy app that could block instances at a user level, but I’m sorry to say I don’t remember the name.
That being said, I fully agree with you on relying on instance admins to defederate / block instances. I prefer to have the agency to choose for myself what gets blocked / not blocked. Though I can’t complain about my instance’s decisions so far, thankfully.
I hope you find something that works for you.
SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes … yes … more isolation, more bubbles…
Doug@midwest.social 10 months ago
You think people should be forced to see things they don’t want to?
LimitedDuck@septic.win 10 months ago
I’m not agreeing with the above, but it’s nuanced. Content curation is a sliding scale that can create an echo chamber if one becomes too insular. On the internet especially where discourse can be inflammatory, avoiding some topics can shut you off from entire ideas that may otherwise be benign.
IMO create the experience you want, but build resilience and test your limits often. It’s healthier for yourself and the internet as a community.
Doug@midwest.social 10 months ago
I’m very much in agreement with you. I think there’s an important value in seeking out those you disagree with. If your values can’t stand under scrutiny then you really do need to carefully consider them.
At the same time there’s space between what you disagree with and what is harmful to your state of mind for most people. Plenty of people don’t want to see anything NSFW and removing that is in no way turning their experience into a bubble.
Nuance is absolutely an important word here but I think the knee jerk isolation response to mention of blocking things is far more harmful than helpful.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
it does seem to me that the people that whinge about bubbles are mostly people espousing reprehensible opinions, while ironically being most aligned with the people in the deepest conservative bubbles.
Doug@midwest.social 10 months ago
Gee I wonder what kind of opinion the person who down voted you has
Bongles@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If somebody develops that feature, they’ve said they’ll merge it. github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397#issuecommen…
chandz05@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Connect and I believe Thunder can block entire instances as well as specific communities and users
Aatube@kbin.social 10 months ago
kbin has that feature!
NightOwl@lemmy.one 10 months ago
When you block an instance on kbin does that mean users from that instance don’t see your content at all when logged into that instance? That’s something I’ve wanted in case in the future some instances federate with Meta, so I don’t provide content for Meta users to see or interact with so they need to log out of Meta or sign up for another instance to view content.
Aatube@kbin.social 10 months ago
I don't think so, it just prevents you from seeing that instance's content including their comments on your posts but not anything else
NightOwl@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I think once that becomes a possibility it’ll make defederation unnecessary. Especially when it comes to Meta, since that’s really become the thing I’ve become more concerned about in the future than squabbles between currently existing instances.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve tried not to block instances (or communities for that matter), because you never know what good communities may appear there at a later date. Instead I generally stick to viewing only my subscribed communities, while occasionally venturing out into Everything to see if there’s anything good I’ve missed.
I guess it’s like using Reddit front page vs using /r/all. I never liked /r/all, so doing it this way is much closer to my Reddit experience.
I guess the good thing is we can all tailor our experiences as we prefer :-)
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, fair points. I like your idea about a threshold for posts getting through, that’d be clever if it could be made to work.
ramble81@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ironically Sync can block entire instances.
Reborn2966@feddit.it 10 months ago
can also filter keywords
SWIM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Funny, connect can do that too
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
Exactly, I don’t like locally stored settings because I have many devices and I don’t want to remember to change something on every device every time
Number358@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And so can kbin
mojo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Really? I thought that needed to be implemented on Lemmy’s level. Guess it’s built in to ActivityPub because Mastodon could always do that. Definitely was a needed feature.