When blocking communities, they will not show up in your "all" feed anymore. This makes browsing Lemmy nicer especially now that you might not subscribed to a lot of communities.
In the browser: In you Lemmy instance, click on your username (right upper corner), "Settings" and open the tab "Blocks" and type in the community you would like to block. Here you can also unblock communities
On Jerboa (Android): Open the community you would like to block, click on the 3 dotted menu (right upper corner) and click "Block Community". Note: you can not unblock on Jerboa. Use the browser (Settings -> Blocks) to unblock.
I wish we could block full instances that way. I blocked 30 different communities on lemmynsfw and every time I browse /all there are 10 new ones.
Now I'm not some prude snowflake, but my use case for lemmy (as it was for reddit) is simply the polar opposite, and having to block all of those titty farms individually is frustrating.
Is there a roadmap anywhere? I looked at joinlemmy and it's only showing vague news instead of a clear, concise roadmap.
Oh and yeah, blocking instances is critical. Really annoyed with socialist spam.
Same for me. I don't need to see nudes in my feed when I'm at work or some public place.
In the android app there is a setting called "show NSFW". I'm not sure if it really not fetching it or just not showing. Could be important if you are using it on a work phone.
On mobile I'm usually browsing subscribed communities, on desktop I'm exploring new ones. No idea why, just turned out that way for the time being.
Good point with the not displaying vs. not fetching! I'm using my private phone for work with a second SIM, so that's not an issue here, but it might certainly be for others. I'd expect the filter to fully ignore NSFW, but with an app in its alpha stage, you never know just how things are implemented early on.
I would love to be able to block lemmygrad in its entirety. As soon as we get that feature I'm using it. Like you said, it's too tedious doing it by community.
I wish this worked. I blocked several communities that are either not relevant / interesting to me or are in a language I don't understand, yet I still see their posts in "All".
For example, I blocked the Formula 1 community three times already.
I'm on kbin and there is a way to do this on the desktop site at least. If I click on the domain it goes to a page viewing it with a block button. Maybe what you're using has something similar?
I don't think so, no. It is being talked a lot about Lemmy users that there's no such option so far. Good to know kbin has it, tho. I really liked its UI
On Jerboa you can also click the three dots on a post from that community and block it from there, no need to go to the page itself. I've already done a bunch this way.
Instead, I set the communities I subscribe to as shows by default. When looking at my general interests, I sometimes press the option to show all the posts to see what's happening in the world on different topics.