I found out about Hexbear today, and I don't want anything to do with any of their communities or anyone who chooses to be a part of it.

What can I do to make sure I don't need to ever remember that it exists?

    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Ok or... Hear me out- they could filter it like they want with the various apps that do that, instead of your suggestion that doesn't help

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    You could go to an instance that blocks us, like Lemmy.world if you are that scared of communists.

    Alternatively this third party app Pretty Private Browsing has instance blocking features I think, but I don't care for the UI personally.

    Final option I guess is to cry about it?

  • Rom [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I mean you could try expanding your horizons a little bit and learning about other instances instead of being so scared of every opposing viewpoint on the internet. I promise you we aren't anywhere near as bad as the libs across lemmy grumble about.

    But like others have said there's currently no built in lemmy way to do it. If you're using uBlock Origin, you can go into the options (with the gears), go into the My filters tab, and add this line to the bottom:

    lemm.ee##div.post-listing > div:nth-child(2) > article:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(3) > a:nth-child(2) > span:has-text(@hexbear.net):upward(8)

    It won't exactly block it but it'll filter out any Hexbear posts from your page when it loads so you don't see them. You can replace the lemm.ee at the beginning with another instance and it should continue to work elsewhere, as long as there aren't any major changes to the front end.

    If you aren't using uBlock then idk how you're even getting through life.

  • TwistyLex@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Memmy has a broken implementation of instance filtering that currently needs to be configured on every startup, but it exists. Hopefully it will eventually be meaningfully functional. Precisely for the instance you mentioned.

  • Menachem@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    outside of running your own instance, asking your instance's owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It's requested a lot though so it's probably on the todo list

  • Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m using Memmy and there’s an option in the settings to block a specific instance or an instance with key words.

  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Have a look at available lemmy clients. Sync for example has a filter feature to block either an instance, a community or user straight from a post.