there is a "block" section in your profile...
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
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Wait, how many communities do you need to block every day for this to be an issue?
There's some new lemmynsfw uber-kink community every like...hour, with some dude shoving pickle jars up his ass or whatever; so...thousands, so long as this list doesn't have an upper limit. Sorry, I don't want pretend-jailbait porn or pickle-jar dude in my /all
I'm mostly blocking news/politics stuff because sometimes ignorance is bliss.
wouldn't it be easier to stop browsing by all and only see the things you want to see?
Not always, I like to sometimes be pleasantly surprised by a community that I didn't know existed without seeing the latest tragic event, political catastrophe, or Elon Musk post along the way that I am all too well aware of. I have nothing against these communities, it's just not the stuff I want to see right now.
Fair enough. I think I'd rather be more mindful of what "mode" I am browsing around. I stick with only the subscribed communities, and whenever I am in the mood for something new, I take some time to browse around the instances to see what's out there. Browsing by all and then blocking all the crappy stuff seems to me like a constant effort with very little potential reward.
Thank you everyone for your client recommendations!
Edit: The Alexandrite web interface allows you to block a community by pressing the three dots next to a post, and this is what I ended up using.
I think the web front-end doesn't, but most clients do. No idea why they are making a feature available through the api that they don't use themselves, but that's what it is.
My client of choice is Sync, but really most of them do the trick.
Huh, kinda weird that it isn't a feature on the web version. I guess I will look for a good client.
Yeah no idea why. Would be trivial to add it to the context menu where you can block the user, hide post etc.
Feel free to open a merge request
I'm on eternity on android and you can do that when viewing a post
Connect has a block list where you can add instances and coms without going to them.
I'm using Pachii as my client and each post has a "Block Community" option.
But you can also block without going into community as asked here using block list.
Could you link me to that? I can't seem to find it.
Doh, Pachii is on Mastodon.
Connect is what I meant:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Thanks!