6mo ago

How to block another instance to curate your Lemmy experience

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 Settings page:

Switch from the Settings tab to the Blocks tab

From this page you can block by User, Instance, or Community

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.

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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
  
  Shock 😂
  
  Yep. I chalk this up to some poor advice of people telling new users to use unspecified instead of their language in their posts. You can't really choose to not see unspecified language posts because then you wouldn't see anything because hardly anyone picks a language.
  Edit: to be clear, I believe that everyone should use unspecified and all languages they speak as content they see but mark all content they post as the language they're using in that content. If the onboarding experience was better about making people always use their language of choice for content they post then I wouldn't necessarily recommend people include unspecified in the content they see.
  
  Actually, the "unspecified" rule is left over from lemmy in it's 0.17 days, because there were severe UI bugs that would frequently blackhole all content on a user's side if it was set to a specific language. I think it's all patched now, and you can select both a language and Unspecified now without nuking your visibility, but the habit is entrenched and most people never set their language default after they joined.
  
  Actually, it's on the mods. If mods configure communities to only the expecte language without undefined, all the posts will be tagged with that language
  
  I would try to reach out to the mods again. I remember doing it once, and someone said they had changed it, but I guess they forgot to remove "undefined"

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