You can't do it on Lemmy unless you're an admin but the Connect for Lemmy app has this feature.
I’d love this to be a built in Lemmy feature. I see their value, but I want to block all of the instances that are just bots reposting Reddit links. There’s never any valuable discussion on those posts, and that’s why I’m here.
long before the reddit migration there was a lotide instance called goldandblack which was made up of the subreddit of the same name. It was largely a mirror of the posts on the subreddit. It looked neat at first but the effect was actually terrible since you'd get a flood of empty stories on your feed.
It’s on the issue list for the devs. Kinda low on the list though behind working on functionality and dealing with bugs that have been discovered with the huge influx of users.
Makes sense! I wish I knew rust so I could chip in but I don’t think my angular/dotnet skillset will be of much use, and I don’t really have the free time to pick up a new lang
https://lemmy.world/post/435133
Here's some help for desktop! Idk a solution on mobile though
There is also a userscript: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469297-block-lemmy-instances
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hate to say it, but this literally is the way... 🤣
eta: ah fuck, you're on lemmy-lemmy. kbin made this appear as if it originated on their server
I've been wondering how to do this! I appreciate the tip.
Right now the easiest option is probably to find an instance that isn't federated with what you don't want to see.
Self hosting an instance may work
This is not built into Lemmy at the moment so the only way to do it is browse using a 3rd party app/website that has added this feature.
The only one I'm aware of at the moment is Connect for Lemmy on Android.
Maybe a dumb question back, but isn't your feed only composed of the things you've subscribed to?
On your feed there are:
Subscribed is what you said. Local is just your home Lemmy instance. All is everything (that wasn't blocked).
Ah, now I get it. I default to subscribed/new, so I wasn't thinking about that.
My understanding is that your “all” feed is every fediverse instance. (Kinda the point) and your other feed is comprised only of your subscriptions.
It's communities from other federated instances. But only ones that a user on your instance has already subscribed to. So use lemmyverse.net or something similar to search communities too.
On the apps, there isn't a way to do it right now.
If you are using a browser with uBlock then you can do it this way: https://lemmy.world/post/435133
Or if you want to use a userscript with violentmonkey/greasemonkey: https://lemmy.world/post/466984
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