Wanting to hide some of the nsfw instances or communities, but keep the nsfw visible option turned on.
Theres some news videos that are sometimes nsfw and i don’t want to filter those out, but at the same time, I don’t want to see a random nude when im scrolling through all, on the couch with my family around.
Anyone know what to do? Haha
If this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize! Any idea where i should be asking this?
Edit: So you can block communities on a personal level, but not instances. The ability to block instances on a personal level could be a future lemmy feature. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397
If you want to block an entire instance, I think the only way is to run your own instance and add it to the blocked list, or join / signup on an instance that already blocks it, then browse lemmy from there.
Alternatively, if you want to block just certain subs from an instance, if you have not “joined” the sub, you should see a “block” button in the sidebar.
Thanks! Was hoping maybe someone knew a way to do it, but yea, seems like ill either just need to turn off the nsfw button, or go to each individual community and block it.
I saw a similar question asked earlier, will link it here if I can find it again, might give you an answer.
EDIT - sorry, I can’t find it! :-(
I’m new, but I think you just go to that community and block them. That’s the only way I’ve found so far.
Or go to your profile and uncheck NSFW for that instance that you’re wanting to scroll with public eyes.
Just block those communities
Was hoping there was a way to do it for instances as a whole, but if this is the only way then ive got some work to do. Lol
This would be a great feature - it’s one of the best things about Mastodon. You can’t filter out all the idiots one-by-one, but then you see someone two people posting some sus anime, or fubar politics, and you can block thousands of idiots with three clicks. It’s very satisfying.
Given Lemmy’s conversational layout, I wonder if there aren’t hidden difficulties. Like if there’s a conversation which goes like this:
. ├── person_0 ├── idiot_0 │ ├── person_1 │ ├── person_2 │ ├── idiot_1 ├── person_3 │ ├── idiot_1…then which comments should you see? If you block all the idiots, but not replies, then you can’t understand the conversation.
I suspect blocking idiots and all replies would work, but I’m not sure.
site admin can do it on the Blocked instances list.
True, but i don’t want to ban it for everyone else, wish there was a way to mute instances on a personal level without making my own personal instance.
This would sure be nice–three checkboxes in preferenes 1) Block NSFW Insances 2) Block NSFW Communities 3) Block NSFW Content
Exactly, i would block 1 and 2 but a news or politics instance/community, will occasionally have a nsfw tagged post that i don’t want to filter out.
admins can do that. def needs more levels https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+community+filter
make yourself heard.
I’m curious why you would need to block an entire instance when you can simply ignore it? Nothing from another instance would show up in yours unless you’re following it.
I like to scroll through all. Yesterday, an under crotch angled drawing of some fury wolf boy thing showed up on my screen lmao
Ah. Fair enough. The only way I know of as others have mentioned is either blocking those communities individually or creating your own instance then blocking those you don’t want to show up.
yea, i decided ill take the hit to losing potential news posts and just turned off the show nsfw button in my settings for now.
Apparently the ability for individual users to block instances is an open issue on lemmy github, so maybe it will get added in the future.
this should really be something users can pick for themselves, as of now its only available to community admins.
My server will be SFW so I will likely be putting filters in place as well as blocking any NSFW dedicated instances. Welcome to join!
