Am I correct in assuming that blocking a community stops it from showing in your feed? I see a lot of posts from communities in languages I don’t speak and would like them to not show up on my feed. So I blocked a few, but I’m not 100% sure if what I did has the intended effect.
(Maybe it’s just because to me, blocking a person seems like something I wouldn’t do to someone who hasn’t done anything wrong, haha XD)
With kbin you can block the instance, with Lemmy you either can a) block all their communities (subreddits) or users b) ask to get blocked by their mods or admins or c) hope your instance admin defederates them.
As someone who wants to block certain communities out of my life, like say conspiracy Q ones, I wasn‘t able to stay on Lemmy as long as we don‘t have that feature. Hope they‘ll add it eventually.
Ah I do get the option to do it for individual communities as well (on Lemmy). Maybe it’s a new feature?
Communities are the groups (subreddits) on an instance (Reddit) it‘s a bit confusing for me sometimes, think I also used that word for instance.
For example if there is a “altright conspiracy instance” (there is and it bothered me), I would have to go there and block all their communities individually and since they are creating new ones too I would have to go there regularly, just to never see them again.
Whereas with kbin I could block their entire instance which means I‘ll never see any of their communities anywhere which is nice. Afaik instance blocking still isn‘t a thing with Lemmy as just yesterday I saw some other people from there lament the same thing.
Nothing to add, but wanted to say Thanks for the explanation. I was also wondering about blocking communities and the relationship to blocking instances. I’ll try to pay more attention to instances and be on the look out for any communities from unwanted instances.
I’m making an app, I’m very close to an Android beta (iPhone will be a bit later), and I’ll put in a “block all communities on this server” button. I can also auto block them the first time a community is seen based on a list of blocked servers
The nice thing is the blocks would be through your account, so if you use the app it would affect the web as well (although the block would only go into place after the app sees it, so it wouldn’t work perfectly in the browser)
I imagine any issue you see one person talk about will be a pain point for many, so would that fix most of what makes you hesitant to stay?