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submitted 1 year ago by FantasticFox@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Is it possible to block entire instances? I see I can block by user or community, but not by instance.

This would be useful as there are some instances based around politics etc. that I don't care about.

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Currently the admins have to curate this for you through federation, although you can try and whack a mole individual communities from an instance. Heaps of people are asking for user level control of blocking instances and I hope it comes soon as there's a couple instances I keep seeing federated into my feed that I find abhorrent, and this growth phase of Lemmy means new communities on those instances keep appearing.

[-] boredtortoise@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah user level control for instance blocking is something we need unless instances start sharing defederation lists.

Blocking communities isn't the same because it only hides posts and not the bad users interacting elsewhere

Oh I didn't mean blocking users, to me a user's home instance is a matter of convenience and not a cross for them to bear as a member of some perceived village.

[-] Azamandriel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I hear that you can if you host your own instance but that seems kinda technical.

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 1 points 1 year ago

Create your own instance, defedrate, profit.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 1 year ago

You will be able to do this with 0.19.0 release.

Users can block instances

Users can now block instances, so that their communities are hidden from listings. This is done via POST /api/v3/site/block with parameters int instance_id, bool block.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

Lemmy 0.19 Breaking Changes

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