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I've been using the all@everything feed to see all the different instances. Subscribing to ones I want to see more of and can then see in my subbed feed later. Then blocking ones that I don't care about to trim down what appears in all@everything.

There's a few instances now showing up for specific nationalities which I'll never be able to understand. Is there a way for me to block or hide these instances from the all@everything feed?

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[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If it's a language thing, make sure you don't accidentally have that language selected in your account settings. You should have "undefined", plus whatever languages you actually speak. Note I don't think you can do this through Liftoff yet so you might need to use the mobile site.

Some stuff probably still gets incorrectly language tagged but I've only seen the occasional non-english post which is what makes me think maybe you've got a wrong setting somewhere if you're seeing a lot of them. Just a thought!

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you actually change the language settings? I seem to just have a list of every language and the x doesn’t seem to remove them

[–] aaronstc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is anyone using language? I have English and undefined set. There is a warning that deselecting undefined will hide most content. Pretty sure almost everything is undefined.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally that comment you just wrote is tagged as English, think it's maybe a default setting on the community level.

[–] aaronstc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair, but I'm seeing quite a bit of foreign (to me) language posts.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting! I've seen barely any, and we're on the same instance, must be something to do with one of our settings or blocklists or something. Ah well!

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, there is no way to block an instance in Lemmy yet.

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely get to grips with the languages options, but we are also looking at a simple solution to the wider problem: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/issues/371

[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

There is not a way yet. What I do is just block each large community from the instance instead. Usually there are only a few communities from smaller instances that are active enough to be spammy.

[–] Akip@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

if you don't want to filter them all manually you could check instances that blocks more other languages instances. For example, the instance I'm member of, feddit.de blocks a japanese instance because its impossible to moderate the content without knowing what the post means. https://lemmy.world/instances scroll to blocked vs https://feddit.de/instances scroll to blocked

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