[REQUEST] Hide/Block Instance
[REQUEST] Hide/Block Instance
I'm so fucking tired of seeing lemmynsfw.com shit on All+Hot. Nothing against the instance of course.
I think Lemmy itself doesn't have that functionality, but maybe the app could allow us to filter out certain instances (not just individual communities) at the feed level?
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The Connect app can block instances. I don't use other apps for Lemmy at this time so I cannot vouch for the others and if they have this option.
Thank you!!! I'll check it out, but I do hope Thunder implements it as well.
You're welcome.
Agreed that the other apps could s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ eventually add this as an option, though.
They really shouldn't, until lemmy itself adds support for this. Adding it on the app side, will mean it only works in that one app, and does so in a way that's inefficient and hacky, and will break when the feature gets actually added to lemmy.
(Connect is likely filtering out everything from an instance, while actually still loading all those posts, so it looks like you blocked something, but actually the app is just not showing those posts) @gon@lemmy.world
The point is to ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ sᴇᴇ ᴀɴ ɪɴsᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ғᴇᴇᴅ so if hitting that little option that says, "BlOcK iNsTaNcE" Does its job, "filters" Or not, then it's mission accomplished. If by your POV that isn't good enough for you, then you need not use the app and are likely not doing so already.
I fail to grasp your gripe here.
It puts extra load on the lemmy instance, it puts extra load on your phone, it puts extra load on your connection. It's extra work for the app devs (which I'm one of btw). I'm not against the feature, I'm against it being implemented in a way that's stupid.
Worst case scenario, would for example be a user blocking lemmy.world. As the largest instance by far, your device would then be loading almost twice the amount of content needed at twice the speed, to display one "page's" worth of it. This fills up ram, this makes the app slower, this makes lemmy slower.
If everyone using lemmy were loading in everything just to look at half of it, the already limited server capacity WILL suffer. All clients implementing this type of "blocking" feature would be like a mini DDOS. Hence, it should NOT be encouraged even a little bit.
I see your point... It's still incredibly annoying though. I hope Lemmy implements this ASAP.
With that I will agree. Users should really be able to pick both what instances, and communities, they want.
Though, now that I thought about it some more, there might be a good way to do it in an app. By allowing you to automate blocking all the communities on an instance. This would still not block that instance forever, new communities on it might show up. So it would be like a poor-mans instance block, but it would allow the filtering to happen server-side, and get around the downsides of client-side blocking.