FYI, I've already submitted this as a feature request on the Sync for Lemmy GitHub.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Filter is not block though, if you open the instance on your browser, you still see them. Only if you actually block them, they are gone.
Then this isn't a Sync feature request, it should be a Lemmy feature request
Blocking is already a Lemmy feature. We're talking about accessing a Lemmy feature from a Sync menu. A useful feature that has already been implemented on other clients (Liftoff) and it is great if you tend to see a lot of content that you don't want to see, which I feel is probably a lot of us.
I wasn't aware Lemmy allowed blocking communities yet, I stand corrected
It could absolutely be implemented by Sync.
Ah my mistake, I didn't know that!
Just do it from the feed, you don't even have to open the post.
Any idea how I can block all things under @hexbear? Everything coming from that instance is absolute horse shit.
You can filter out posts from instances here: Settings shortcut: Filters > Instance filters
It unfortunately doesn't work with comments. But if I recall correctly the Lemmy devs are working on an official personal instance block for this use case.
Apart from the obvious ones, I currently filter out:
- lemmit.online (bots that repost random stuff from reddit, never anyone in the comments, which makes it boring.)
- zerobytes.monster (same as above)
- lemmynsfw.com (I don't want to accidentally scroll past poorly tagged NSFW on public transport. It has not been a huge problem but better safe than sorry)
Big funny here. How exactly do you filter the instance? It asks to type it out but I seem to be doing it wrong. I typed the whole domain https://hexbear..... and it didn't work, tried "hexbear"... should it be @hexbear?
Thanks fren.
Maybe I'm just having a stroke here, but I could swear I'm already blocking communities I don't want to appear. Let me check...
Edit: yeah, settings/general/filters. I have a few things filtered out, like hexbear, or whatever it's called. You can hide based on user, keyword, domain, instance, and community.