When blocking communities, they will not show up in your “all” feed anymore. This makes browsing Lemmy nicer especially now that you might not subscribed to a lot of communities.
In the browser: In you Lemmy instance, click on your username (right upper corner), “Settings” and open the tab “Blocks” and type in the community you would like to block. Here you can also unblock communities
On Jerboa (Android): Open the community you would like to block, click on the 3 dotted menu (right upper corner) and click “Block Community”. Note: you can not unblock on Jerboa. Use the browser (Settings -> Blocks) to unblock.
I wish we could block full instances that way. I blocked 30 different communities on lemmynsfw and every time I browse /all there are 10 new ones.
Now I’m not some prude snowflake, but my use case for lemmy (as it was for reddit) is simply the polar opposite, and having to block all of those titty farms individually is frustrating.
Ability to block instances at the user level should be coming in one of the next updates
Is there a roadmap anywhere? I looked at joinlemmy and it’s only showing vague news instead of a clear, concise roadmap. Oh and yeah, blocking instances is critical. Really annoyed with socialist spam.
Same for me. I don’t need to see nudes in my feed when I’m at work or some public place.
In the android app there is a setting called “show NSFW”. I’m not sure if it really not fetching it or just not showing. Could be important if you are using it on a work phone.
On mobile I’m usually browsing subscribed communities, on desktop I’m exploring new ones. No idea why, just turned out that way for the time being.
Good point with the not displaying vs. not fetching! I’m using my private phone for work with a second SIM, so that’s not an issue here, but it might certainly be for others. I’d expect the filter to fully ignore NSFW, but with an app in its alpha stage, you never know just how things are implemented early on.
It’s a temporary workaround, but not really a permanent fix. There’s NSFW other than porn, and I don’t necessarily want to block everything 18+.