YSK: You can block communities from appearing on your "All" feed. just go to the website of your instance, pull up the community, and click "block community" (On mobile click "Sidebar" first")

Too many beans for you?

Not enough, I'm disappointed
Why’d ya spill yer beans?
If your comment gets 2 upvotes, you can never mention beans again

I just blocked cats. I like cats. But there’s a gazillion of cats on my feed all of a sudden.

Cats.

- 😹
- Well he's just magnificent! Please tell this cat I love them.
I'm the same. I also block individuals who post the same thing in like 6 different subs. Yes those posts can tech ically belong in 6 different subs, but if I see more then 2 I just don't care and it's instant block from me.
- Unlike subs where there's one centralized "Technology" sub for example, here they're spread out. There are at least 3 large and active "Technology" communities and so cross-posting to all is necessary. It's the equivalent to posting to the single "Technology" sub on the shit site. Therefore multi-communitu cross-posting is the norm here.
You know a website is making it when there's pussy, and pussy. We need more balance on the pussies tho.
Absolutely. First thing I did when I discovered how to block communities. And I like cats too.
I'm not sure you're allowed to do that.

Thank you! Shitpost was the first one to go. If I never see another bean in my life it will be too soon.

But beans are really a great nutritious food. Cheap too!
- They make you toot too, which is great for digestion.
It won't always be beans, though it may be a bit.
- It will always be shit, however.

It would be cool if there was a way to block without having to visit a site like massivecock@lemmynsfw.com first.

Turn off NSFW in your user profile first. But you're right.
- I wish there was difference between porn nsfw and just nsfw tho

Oh I'm blocking 196 for sure

Rule

I had to do that too. I don't really hate it, but it's like every other post on All. Annoying.
- That’s my problem too. I don’t mind memes, shitposts, 196 generally. At least not until the beans. But collectively it feels like they take up 80% of All. I wish I could just reduce their frequency somehow.

Finally, no more beans 🫘 ☺️

E: We probably want a "Mute Community" option as well. One that removes that community's content from All, but doesn't remove access from the community if you search for it or go to it directly. That way we can look at 🫘 when we want to, yet not see them displacing everything else in All.

It would be nice if you could block entire instances. I once had my feed fill up with a bunch of sports posts with exactly 0 activity on them.

I wrote a script that does just this.

Is there a way to block an entire instance without having to manually block all of it's communities?

I don't want to disable NSFW in my user profile.

This feature is currently not available on a per-user level.

Finally, much less beans...

I do that instead of subscribing to communities.

So far I've mostly just blocked sports related communities. Also Apple.

Thank goodness. The shit post communities are by far the most popular right now.

For WefWef users there isn’t a block button, however, switch to Memmy or Mlem and block them through that and it will also block in WefWef. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Good suggestion. I’ll add the feature tomorrow as a PR.
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Fedi users 🤝 blocking shitposting communities

Jerboa on Android has the option to block communities directly from the post on your feed. Just tap the three dots and block it. Lets you block furry porn without having to see any of it.

Is there anyway to block instances without defederating? If not I'd like to see that as an option

Is there any way to block an entire server that's federated to the one you have an account on? I don't want to individually block every single community.

No, your admin could defederate them but that effects everyone

A lot of people have requested this feature though, so it may come.
- It would be great... I'm tired of pawb.social and yiffit.net.
  
  To each its own, but furry and furry porn are not for me.
- Thanks for the response!
  
  I think I might be done with lemmy until that's introduced. I want to be a part of the midwest.social community on here, but I don't want to block new porn communities every day as their volume of votes tends to dominate the feed.
  
  And I don't want to set it to subscribed communities only, because then I won't find new communities I'll actually enjoy and engage with. I think there's a lot of potential with these federated communities, but it's just not mature enough for user controls yet.

goodbye the donald.

Thanks. As much as I can appreciate gonewild once in awhile I don't need it appearing in my all feed.

Block nsfw on your main and have a nsfw alt account?

Much easier on Connnect for lemmy app on android, you just click the [...] and select block community from the title of the post

Is there a way to review what you've blocked and/or unblock a community?

I've looked and if it's there, I can't see it.

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- Found it, thanks! I also tried it in memmy, and I don't think it's there yet.

I started getting dicks for some reason but blocking those communities fixed it. I wish there was a way to have to opt into getting dicks instead.

Agreed. Should be opt in for NSFW
- Disagree. The default should be all enabled

Good. Bye bye ich_lel

Too many beans

finally, this should be stickied forever, the most important feature out there

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The naming of this button is too rough, IMO. And it could have been placed in the dropdown menu for each post. kthnx.

On Jerboa it is and I'm extremely grateful for it. Blocked a bunch of lemmynsfw communities that I'd rather not see scrolling in public 😅

Hopefully comes to the web version soon.
- Why not disable NSFW on your main account, and then create a "porn" account. Then when in public, you stick with your main and stay safe(r), and in private you can scroll your alt.

My client has a block community option right from the feed.

Well, that's the exact community I block in my home feed

Thanks for this tip! Very helpful and def improved my experience.

And yet what I really, really want is the ability to block instances… any idea if/when that is coming? I know it's a thing on Mastodon so it should be one here too, hopefully.

Does anyone know how to do this from the thunder app? I can't seem to figure it out. It's easy enough on jerboa but I can't see an option on thunder.

Some apps have it, some don't yet.

They're all still under heavy development I'm sure it will come eventually.

But if you block it on one app or the site, it should stay blocked on Thunder
I recommend lift off but it doesn't have gesture controls.

This was me with all the communist memes