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Block an entire instance (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do I block an entire instance?

I'm getting really really sick of blocking dozens of communities from lemmynsfw every single day. It never ends ffs.

If I want porn, I'll go looking for porn. It shouldn't be every third post in my feed.

Honestly, how is anyone supposed to join Lemmy if they all just get flodded with mountains of porn??? I can't imagine anyone that's not already invested in being here wanting to join. (unless their looking for a pornhub alt I guess...)

Not everything NSFW is porn and I'm not looking to remove non-porn so permanently hiding everything tagged NSFW isn't a solution.

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's sort of annoying that there is a perfectly working solution to the problem but people won't use it because of FOMO. You're not gonna miss the posts you don't see. You already miss posts and never think about them.

[Edit] Just make a secondary account for when you want to interact with NSFW content. You can't block an entire instance. Do you want a solution or do you just want to bellyache about it?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They just want to bellyache. I've been on Lemmy for months and the only NSFW content I find on Hot or New is porn, and I just don't look at it if I don't want to.

They could also subscribe to their desired communities and just look at those, but I'm sure that's unacceptable because of additional FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I spent about 3 weeks ignoring it, then started blocking every porn sub that shows up. I'm at 53 blocked communities from just that instance alone (and really it's been the only problem instance I've seen).

News regularly gets tagged NSFW, particularly news related to the war in Ukraine. I'm also fine with general gore and psychologically triggering topics, both of which are usually tagged NSFW.

It's rather difficult to explore, finding new and interesting communities, when you only ever browse by 'subscribed'. Lemmy isn't nearly busy enough to stick to that alone. I usually start there and very quickly expand to local then all as I run out of interesting content. That will slowly get better as I find more communities and Lemmy gets more popular, but that takes a while and still leaves me in a walled garden.

This also doesn't address the problem of a new user wanting to join Lemmy and being flooded with endless porn communities. Lemmy is not attractive at all in this state.

So, I'm going to continue to advocate for a feature myself and others want: Individual users being able to block whole instances at will.