How do I, as a user, block an entire instance from showing up in my feed?

Kaizen, 11 months ago

Which instance is this?

ckrius, 11 months ago

What instance so I can avoid it?

Indie, 11 months ago

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Chip, 11 months ago

You can use uBlock Origin extension and add them into a filter so you won’t see them or any specific words in feeds.

Then you can go into the Dashboard of the extension > My Filters and add in lines like this to filter out anything you want.

lemmy.fmhy.ml##.post-listing:has-text(TEXT_FILTER)

The TEXT_FILTER is case sensitive. So, you can make multiple lines with the same word if needed. If you want to filter an entire instance from showing up then you would put in @INSTANCE_NAME

dustedhands, 11 months ago

Is lemmy.fmhy.ml at the beginning the home/local users instance?

Chip, 11 months ago

Yes it is. And the ## after it says to only work on that site.

oatmilkmaid, 11 months ago

You can’t - unless you own the instance in which case you can block other instances from federating with yours. However, it’s been a long requested feature so I’m sure it might show up at some point.

I suggest you either a) block individual communities b) switch to an instance that isn’t federated with them (yet). You won’t see their content if no one on the instance has tried to find their content before.

KoboldCoterie, 11 months ago

If the instance you’re having a problem with is an egregious case, you could also make a case to your instance admins to defederate with them entirely, but this is kind of the nuclear option. If it’s just a few users causing problems, rather than something the instance itself is promoting, that’s probably overkill.