Yes you can block communities! It's on the same page where you would join a community.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Does it depend on what app you're using? Unfortunately can't see it
I can speak to Jerboa and on desktop. On Jerboa the block is in the 3 dots menu, in the upper right, on desktop it's a big red button at the top right of the community. Also on desktop you can see all the communities on the instance in the communities button at the very top, next to the instance logo, it'll be a bit quicker to mass block by just going down and blocking each community you don't want to see, but you still have to do it one by one in each community. And you can just subscribe to a bunch of stuff and set your default settings to sort by what you're subscribed to.
Thank you, I found it. I can already tell it's making browsing my home screen so much better.
I don't know whether it's possible to bulk-block communities, but if you click on an individual community, there's a box on the right with the name of the community, Create a post and finally Block community. I've just clicked on the latter and it seems to work.
Thank you, I must be a moron because I still can't find it
I take it you're on mobile? In that case I'm afraid I can't help you, because I'm only on PC.
I've been using Summit for Lemmy.
You can subscribe to different communities and then set c/subscriptions as your homepage.
It helps block the noise
Block Community is my most pressed button.
mine is probably the spacebar
Please edit the title to contain the question you’re asking (:
You can't do it in wefwef, but for Lemmy backed instances if you go in to your settings link under your account, there's a tab for "Blocks" in which you can block specific users and communities. You can't block instances however. Basically you have to remember the name of the community and search for it there.
I agree a block button on the community would be better but at least there is some method for blocking.
On desktop at least, there is also the possibility to click on the user name in the top right corner and select "Settings". There you can choose the tab "Blocks" and enter community names to block. Works pretty well for me. Blocked a bunch of communites and feel much more at home now.
You can block communities if you're using Kbin instances: just go to the magazine and select the "block" icon instead of the subscribe icon. The communities won't appear on any feed.
Kbin needs to have a block icon next to community links inside posts in the homepage. Going to the community, scrolling all the way down to the sidebar on mobile, then blocking it is just not convenient.
And being on fediverse, there's just so many communities with the same name. it starts to get tiring.
FYI https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/399 There's a userscript so it'll probably make it in as feature in the not too distant future.
The defining, and exciting, feature of the Fediverse is it enables instances to try out different strategies to things like moderation. Duplicate communities is a side effect of that, but I think it will settle down. I'm expecting there will be a lot of small specialized instances for related topics, and people will broadly subscribe to communities on the instances they like.
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