How do I block all hexbear and lemmy.ml. I'm sick of being a part of the China/Russia psyops. (lemm.ee)

submitted 16 hours ago by jaschen@lemm.ee to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I can block individual communities, but I wanna block everything from hexbear.

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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The best way is to make an account on a server that doesn't federate with them. Sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, and most other large servers are defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad.ml.

Apparently lemmy.cafe is defederated from those as well as lemmy.ml. Be aware that a good chunk of major communities are hosted in lemmy.ml, so you won't be able to access those if you're defederated.

Unfortunately even if you block them, you will still see posts and comments that users from that server make on external communities. It's only by being fully defederated that you won't be able to see any of their content at all.

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

Sh.itjust.works is not defederated from hexbear lol. I can speak from experience that they still show up everywhere.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah I guess that's true, they are defederated from us but technically we aren't defederated from them. But they still can't see anything that SJW users post or participate in our communities. And same for lemmy.world, etc.

So you only really see them when they comment on lemmy.ml communities for the most part. There are a lot of lemmy.ml sublemmies to be fair.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Thank you. I'm currently on lemme and it's a good instance. I guess I should hop over to lemmy.world if they already defederated them.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Lemm.ee is a really good server but if hexbear and lemmygrad annoy you, then it's not the right fit for you.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Ya, it's sad but true

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 23 points 15 hours ago

The lemmy.cafe instance is defederated from lemmy.ml and hexbear. If you use a lemmy.cafe account, you won't see any post/comment/communities from users of those instances.

For me, this works better than having to block users one by one. Lemmy is only tolerable to me because of this option.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You can block full instances via a PC. I generally surf lemmy using Boost and I wasn't able to do on my phone.

But go to your settings>blocked>instances and type in the instances you want to block.

Also fair warning, you're most likely about to get brigaded by both instances

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Mobile Web too.

What's important to note is it blocks all the subs from that instinance, but not posts those users make to other instances.

And you'll still see all their comments, but you won't get notified if someone from those instances reply to you. You can still see them and reply back, but you won't be notified

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

It's better off blocking users one by one because of all the people with alts. Cut their head off and two more grow in it's place

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Nah, I blocked .ml, hilariouschaos, and a couple other troll instances.

Worked out great so far, I've even thought of blocking some of the "dead" instances because that's where troll accounts usually come from.

The main issue is accidentally stumbling into a sub on their instance, anywhere else and mods/admins can step in.

But there is zero reason to ever comment or even see a post made on those instances, because the worst users on them are the mods/admins.

So you just stop going to their house where they make the rules.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

What is brigaded?!?! Is that bad?!?!

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

Brigading

[-] Lupus@feddit.org 6 points 16 hours ago

Boost has that option under settings>filters & blocks>muted instances. You have to type in the instance address but it worked for me at least.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Weird. I couldn't do it, but it's all good. I can remove blocked instances but not add them on boost. Might be a bug I should let the devs know about

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 4 points 12 hours ago

Feel ya, every now and then I do find an interesting conversation on both, but most of the time its just annoying spam at best.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago

I saw an article about how shit the American economy is and how amazing of a job Xi bear is doing in China and I'm like, no.... No I'm done.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 9 points 16 hours ago

Three dots on a post > filter > filter instance

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

Doesn't seem to work.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 1 points 12 hours ago

Which part isn't working?

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

I think I figured it out. I removed the @ and I think it worked.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 1 points 11 hours ago

Oo good to know, thanks for letting us know

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

Thank everyone on this forum for being so helpful.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 15 hours ago

Can't wait for mbin to have the same feature. Those two instances might as well be official Russian servers.

[-] doc@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

It already does, and was in kbin day one (of reddit Exodus). Look in your settings for the block domains area. Unfortunately the feature to add a domain block only worked on desktop for me.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

I tried that feature. It only blocks links / posts with those servers - as in, if somebody makes a post and puts a link to that server as the topic, then that post won't show up. Unless a new feature was introduced, I'm afraid that's it.