How do we block hexbear.net?

When version 0.19 arrives, you will be able to block any instance you want (see pinned post in !lemmy@lemmy.ml)

For now you need to block them in the app you are using. If you're mostly using it on the website, unfortunately you will need to manually block the communities you don't like.

Until proper support arrives (Lemmy 0.19 and... whenever it's meant to appear on kbin, which currently even errors trying to block a certain hexbear community), I just made a few filters. Unfortunately they are on my other machine. Fortunately they are plain old uBlock Origin selectors, and not that hard to make. The rough points:

On kbin, posts on the front page, magazine (community) pages etc are article tags, containing links to the user and community. That link will always end with /u/@someone@someplace or /m/somewhere@someplace. As a result you can do stuff like block article.entry:has(a.user-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"]) (posts by all hexbear denizens) article.entry:has(a.magazine-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"]) (posts by anyone to hexbear communities) - this is untested off the top of my dome, syntax might be broken.

I don't know how it works in Lemmy, presumably not that differently.

Witch app do you use? Some apps let you block instances, but I'm not familiar with how. I just blocked all the communities I came across.