How do I mute or block other instances? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlaxPicker@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Wanting to hide some of the nsfw instances or communities, but keep the nsfw visible option turned on.

Theres some news videos that are sometimes nsfw and i don’t want to filter those out, but at the same time, I don’t want to see a random nude when im scrolling through all, on the couch with my family around.

Anyone know what to do? Haha

If this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize! Any idea where i should be asking this?

Edit: So you can block communities on a personal level, but not instances. The ability to block instances on a personal level could be a future lemmy feature. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

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[-] slashzero@hakbox.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to block an entire instance, I think the only way is to run your own instance and add it to the blocked list, or join / signup on an instance that already blocks it, then browse lemmy from there.

Alternatively, if you want to block just certain subs from an instance, if you have not "joined" the sub, you should see a "block" button in the sidebar.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Was hoping maybe someone knew a way to do it, but yea, seems like ill either just need to turn off the nsfw button, or go to each individual community and block it.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw a similar question asked earlier, will link it here if I can find it again, might give you an answer.

EDIT - sorry, I can't find it! :-(

[-] Hungryhippo13@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm new, but I think you just go to that community and block them. That's the only way I've found so far.

Or go to your profile and uncheck NSFW for that instance that you're wanting to scroll with public eyes.

[-] elonspez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just block those communities

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Was hoping there was a way to do it for instances as a whole, but if this is the only way then ive got some work to do. Lol

[-] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 5 points 1 year ago

site admin can do it on the Blocked instances list.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

True, but i don’t want to ban it for everyone else, wish there was a way to mute instances on a personal level without making my own personal instance.

[-] Perdendosi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This would sure be nice--three checkboxes in preferenes 1) Block NSFW Insances 2) Block NSFW Communities 3) Block NSFW Content

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly, i would block 1 and 2 but a news or politics instance/community, will occasionally have a nsfw tagged post that i don’t want to filter out.

[-] Andonome@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This would be a great feature - it's one of the best things about Mastodon. You can't filter out all the idiots one-by-one, but then you see someone two people posting some sus anime, or fubar politics, and you can block thousands of idiots with three clicks. It's very satisfying.

Given Lemmy's conversational layout, I wonder if there aren't hidden difficulties. Like if there's a conversation which goes like this:

.
├── person_0
├── idiot_0
│   ├── person_1
│   ├── person_2
│   ├── idiot_1
├── person_3
│   ├── idiot_1

...then which comments should you see? If you block all the idiots, but not replies, then you can't understand the conversation.

I suspect blocking idiots and all replies would work, but I'm not sure.

[-] ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’m curious why you would need to block an entire instance when you can simply ignore it? Nothing from another instance would show up in yours unless you’re following it.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like to scroll through all. Yesterday, an under crotch angled drawing of some fury wolf boy thing showed up on my screen lmao

[-] ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah. Fair enough. The only way I know of as others have mentioned is either blocking those communities individually or creating your own instance then blocking those you don’t want to show up.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yea, i decided ill take the hit to losing potential news posts and just turned off the show nsfw button in my settings for now.

Apparently the ability for individual users to block instances is an open issue on lemmy github, so maybe it will get added in the future.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Was about to ask the same thing. Ideally I'd like to just keep pornography from showing up in my "all" without having to block it entirely or hide it entirely.

I'm no prude, but if I want to see the porn, I'll go to the community to see it and keep my "all" feed safe for work.