Like, let’s say I didn’t want to see anything from lemmygrad. I don’t actually plan on blocking anything at the moment, but specifically in kbin, how would I go about blocking full instances? Or is that something I can’t do? Sorry, I’m still very new and trying to figure this all out.
Something that helps a little is if you manually go to the domain page (or click on a domain next to a post that shows the domain) you can block it from there. For example if you wanted to block lemmygrad.ml posts, you’d go to https://kbin.social/d/lemmygrad.ml and block it from there. This doesn’t remove posts from the instance that link to other sites, but will at least remove all the text posts
There are domain pages? I never knew this! So that link shows all the posts local to lemmygrad? And if you so choose you could subscribe/block to the whole instance?
The domain page is for the domain the post links to. For example, if you make a post that links to a youtube video, the domain for the post will be youtube.com. Since all text posts created on lemmygrad.ml are hosted on lemmygrad, the domain is lemmygrad.ml. But then if someone posts a youtube video to a lemmygrad community, the domain for that post would be youtube.com, so would not be blocked. That means you would still see that post, even though it was posted to a lemmygrad community.
The post’s domain is the little url next to the post’s title. Like in this image, you can see the domain for the top post is kbin.social and the bottom post is imgur.com. Even though that bottom post was posted to [email protected] the domain is imgur, so something like that would not be blocked if you block the instance’s domain.
https://imgur.com/a/93Yy449.png
Click that icon and turn off federation status
Now you will only see things from kbin.socialAh so it’s all or nothing in terms of seeing federated content? That’s good to know. Like I said I don’t plan on turning it off, I just didn’t know how it works technically. I’m still deworming my brain from a decade of Reddit lol. Thanks.
I don’t think there’s a way to block specific instances, but if a magazine/community from an instance pops up you can block the entire magazine/community.
