Title says it all, I hope.
Yes.
But your instance must be running v19.
If it is, you should be able to add servers to the blocklist in account settings. If you are using an app or client which doesn’t implement instance blocking, you may have to do this in the webUI In a browser, but once you do the block will work in any client.
Ok, thanks!
I’m using Memmy, so I’ll try to login on the web someday and get that server instance blocked. (Presuming we are running v19+, not sure)
You can add instance filters manually in Memmy.
Setttings > Filters and Blocking > Instance Filters
This is apparently broken, and memmy development looks to be dead.
Oh, crap. I had t actually tried it. Thanks.
Is Memmy officially dead/abandoned?
Seems like it. Latest update was last year. No commits or merges either.
Hmm just react native, which is in my wheelhouse. Probably not worth contributing fixes now tho if it’s a dead repo.
You could fork and maintain it :)
Bwaha, thank you fellow human!
This is a local filter and will not block the instance using the Lemmy native instance blocking feature. Meaning it will not sync with your account.
You may want to look into other clients, looking at the GitHub, Memmy development seems abandoned.
If you want to continue using Memmy, blocking the instance in your account from the webUI should still work.
Ahh, what an emotional rollercoaster - ok, so noted.
Memmy seems relatively decent, only missing maybe one or two features that I’ve noticed in my few weeks on lemmy.
I’ve been using Thunder since the exodus, and its development has been going slow and steady since (with help from me and others).
Without updates to Memmy, eventually the API may break, as happened to LiftOff when the v19 update landed, stopping it from working entirely.
A lot of new apps got started during the reddit API drama, now it seems we are finding out which ones are actually sticking around.
That was a breath of fresh air to see a cross-platform client - have downloaded it and will check it out as soon as i can.
Gotta limit my social media intake otherwise I get bad headaches these days.
I used to use Memmy before development stopped. I found Voyager had all the features/UI that I wanted and used that for a while. Recently I’ve started trying Arctic - it’s similar to Voyager but has a few UI tweaks I prefer.
Edit: oh and both of these apps support instance blocking
Cool, I will check these out - thanks for the suggestions!
Yep, lemmy.sdf.org is on 0.19.3 so you’re good (as long as you’re using a frontend that provides access to the instance blocking option)
You are.
Does memmy not have instance blocking? I’m on thunder myself, and it definitely does.
Settings -> Blocks: there you can either block users, communities or instances. You want the last one.
I wonder how many people give up on the fediverse without ever bothering to ask this very common question.
Time to defederate from lemmy.ml and the other propaganda instances so the Fediverse has a chance of surviving.
I almost did because of hexbear.net.
I swear, we need instance tagging so that people can tag their instances as “right-leaning”, “left-leaning”, or “moderate” and let users just pre-emptively block wide swaths of the fediverse for themselves.
The worst thing you can do is block people because of their leanings. That is how you get echo chambers. Of course many extremeists on both sides need to be blocked, just make sure you block them on your side too.
One of the best things that you can do for your mental health is to excise negative influences in your life. I’m a fence sitter, so not much blocking to do on our side.
If you don’t want an echo chamber, maybe you should start chatting with homeless or mentally ill people on the streets instead of living high-and-mighty on the internet.
Lol yeah, I have to block individual hexbear users whenever I find a thread where the instance hasn’t defederated from them yet. I’d love to be able to block all hexbear and lemmy.ml users
You can. Instance blocking was added in v19. Or does it not block users from the instance appearing elsewhere? That seems an oversight, if so.
Oh is that very recent? I think I’ve been using the instance block feature that my app has. Which blocks me from seeing any of their posts, but I still see them show up in comment threads. I’ll look into this later, would love to be rid of them entirely
Some apps have had local filtering for a while, but v19 implemented account level blocking in Lemmy itself.
Language would be a great option, too. I find all the non-English posts interesting in a puzzle sort of way, but honestly I don’t need them.
I find my process for tailoring Lemmy to be the opposite of mine for Reddit. Reddit, I compiled a list of communities I was actively interested in and avoided /all entirely. Here, I’m always on All, and would rather just narrow down what “all” means.
I think language is already an option but everyone just posts as “unknown” or “unspecified” or whatever it is
I am in the same boat - Lemmy is like filtering down /all, which is nice for discovering new things, but in Reddit it is pretty nice to just accumulate things as you discover them and be spared the sometimes painful noise.
I really need to move off Lemmy.ml, moving all my saved stuff seems like it’s going to be annoying though
Go to your settings and hit that export button, then on your new instance use the import button to sub back to everything
I don’t think it keeps my saved posts and comments though so I’d have to get those back manually
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Yeah it’s not like the western instances have any propaganda. Only Russians have that. :P
Profile > settings > block list> scroll down and they’ll be a field to enter the instance domain
Thanks All!
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