I’d love to be able to block an entire instance. Can this please be added to Jerboa?
I don’t think this is yet possible in the Lemmy protocol itself.
There are hacky ways to do it through a frontend that can only block communities. Any time a post appears from that instance, automatically block the community and hide the post. I don’t know if jerboa would prefer to wait until a more elegant solution is possible and/or leave it to the user though.
Why do you feel the need to do this?
So that you don’t need to seek out “which instance isn’t federated with [instance I would wish to defederate from had I the ability]” and can instead simply click “block instance.” And could do this without hosting my own whole ass instance.
Say another NSFW instance pops up and gets really popular…but it’s only furry and futa, and a lot of it, and new communities all the time pop up for vore, and guro, etc. Sure, one can whack-a-community everytime one pops up if they don’t want that being prominent in their all tab, or they can just click “block instance” and keep it pushing. It isn’t something bad enough I feel I could (nor should) bother my instance admin about defederating, and if he disagreed with me I’d like to not have to create a whole new ass acct just to not see c/specificguro pop up on my shit after banning c/guro and c/leftguro, and I don’t want to block all NSFW because A) It isn’t always porn, that tag is sometimes used erroneously, and B) I’m cool with some titty, but cockvore is a little much.
Tbh how do you not see the need for this?
Because I’m okay with blocking communities and not defeating the purpose of federation by blocking whole instances.
Sometimes, you need to block whole instances. Would it make more sense to you if I said instead of porn they were right wing?
Furthermore, not everyone is you. Other people want to do different things sometimes. Just because you’re fine distrohopping around lemmy or being stuck blocking new communities like a game of whack-a-mole doesn’t mean everyone wants to do that. Mastodon has this feature, and they’re doing just fine with it, it won’t kill the federation to allow people one more cunt hair’s worth of control over the content they see.
Why would I, an individual, care about “defeating the purpose of a federation” when all I’m trying to do is cultivate a feed that only shows things that I’m interested in? If there’s an instance that only hosts things that I know I’m not interested in, why wouldn’t I at least want to have the option to block everything coming from that instance? It literally affects no one but me, why would you or anyone else care what I choose to see on my screen?
Personally, I’d love to see this feature just so I can block all instances that are in a different language from ones that I speak. It’s quite a task having to constantly block communities that only have things I can’t understand. That’s really not a task that I want to have to constantly maintain, and being able to choose to not see any current or future communities hosted on those servers would be a great timesaver for me.
Also, as another example, there’s one particular instance that is very welcoming to hate speech and ideas of violence towards people that aren’t like them. Not all communities in that instance are as open about it as others, but just a few minutes ago I clicked on a thread hosted on that instance and watched what I thought was an innocent comedy video. About halfway through I started noticing some subtle hate-speech that was being casually tossed in. I went back to the comments section to see what instance the video was hosted in, and sure enough, it was the one that I know of that allows for such content to flourish. So in that regard someone might block the more obvious hate communities, but then not notice the more subtle ones. And while I do appreciate the idea of the fediverse that I can choose to interact with those people if I want to, I personally have made the decision that I do not want to waste my time with literal haters, so I would love to have the option of blocking any and all current and future messages from anyone participating in that instance. It’s my choice. Why wouldn’t you want everyone to have that option even if you don’t want to make that decision yourself?
I dislike censorship more than I dislike having to constantly see posts by tankies and nazis, but only barely. I don’t want to have to advocate for defederation from obvious loony instances if there’s a possibility to just block them individually. There’s just not a single user or community I am interested in reading the opinions of with @lemmygrad.ml in their handle - it’s a perfect heuristic. So why not allow me to use it?
Also I’d love to be able to filter by entire instance (besides “global”, “local”, and “subscribed”, if we could add instances where we can only see content from that instance)
