Why YSK: You may dislike, disagree with, or be tired of certain communities and don't want them in your feed.
YSK: You can block communities from appearing on your "All" feed. just go to the website of your instance, pull up the community, and click "block community" (On mobile click "Sidebar" first")
3 years ago by bdonvr to c/youshouldknow
Fractalfarmer 7 points 3 years ago
Well he's just magnificent! Please tell this cat I love them.
Fiivemacs 5 points 3 years ago
I'm the same. I also block individuals who post the same thing in like 6 different subs. Yes those posts can tech ically belong in 6 different subs, but if I see more then 2 I just don't care and it's instant block from me.
avidamoeba 1 point 3 years ago
Unlike subs where there's one centralized "Technology" sub for example, here they're spread out. There are at least 3 large and active "Technology" communities and so cross-posting to all is necessary. It's the equivalent to posting to the single "Technology" sub on the shit site. Therefore multi-communitu cross-posting is the norm here.
AlternActive 5 points 3 years ago
You know a website is making it when there's pussy, and pussy. We need more balance on the pussies tho.
Koopa_Khan 23 points 3 years ago
Thank you! Shitpost was the first one to go. If I never see another bean in my life it will be too soon.
ParkedInReverse 5 points 3 years ago
It won't always be beans, though it may be a bit.
Badass_panda 20 points 3 years ago
Oh I'm blocking 196 for sure
Rule
pulaskiwasright 5 points 3 years ago
That’s my problem too. I don’t mind memes, shitposts, 196 generally. At least not until the beans. But collectively it feels like they take up 80% of All. I wish I could just reduce their frequency somehow.
razorwiregoatlick 17 points 3 years ago
It would be cool if there was a way to block without having to visit a site like massivecock@lemmynsfw.com first.
DicksMcgee43 2 points 3 years ago
Yeah... nsfw is a bit too broad
avidamoeba 15 points 3 years ago
Finally, no more beans 🫘 ☺️
E: We probably want a "Mute Community" option as well. One that removes that community's content from All, but doesn't remove access from the community if you search for it or go to it directly. That way we can look at 🫘 when we want to, yet not see them displacing everything else in All.
sauerkraus 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 819993 821992 847605, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
sauerkraus 1 point 3 years ago
Would it be possible to add a way to block instances?
sauerkraus 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 819993 821992 847615, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
MomSpaghetti 12 points 3 years ago
Is there a way to block an entire instance without having to manually block all of it's communities?
I don't want to disable NSFW in my user profile.
DankMemeMachine 11 points 3 years ago
Finally, much less beans...
Hypersapien 10 points 3 years ago
I do that instead of subscribing to communities.
So far I've mostly just blocked sports related communities. Also Apple.
holeydood3 7 points 3 years ago
Is there any way to block an entire server that's federated to the one you have an account on? I don't want to individually block every single community.
holeydood3 4 points 3 years ago
Thanks for the response!
I think I might be done with lemmy until that's introduced. I want to be a part of the midwest.social community on here, but I don't want to block new porn communities every day as their volume of votes tends to dominate the feed.
And I don't want to set it to subscribed communities only, because then I won't find new communities I'll actually enjoy and engage with. I think there's a lot of potential with these federated communities, but it's just not mature enough for user controls yet.
bdonvr 10 points 3 years ago
As an FYI you can go to your profile settings on your instance's site, you can turn off NSFW and you won't see any of that.
You could also sign up to an instance that blocks the porn one, and still participate in Midwest.social communities
holeydood3 3 points 3 years ago
It's a decent bandaid, but I don't want to block all NSFW content, I just want better controls around it so I'm not fighting an onslaught of creative new community names around anal whenever I open the site or an app.
I could indeed join another instance, but figuring out which instances are federated to which other instances is a bit of a slog from a user perspective unless there's a big searchable graph available somewhere (which is entirely possible, I'm still very ignorant).
And who knows, maybe the apps will get better and be able to grab a local-only feed for each instance you have an account on and can patch together a feed from them all mixed together, and that would get me close to a workable solution for the long run.
BloodyFable 1 point 3 years ago
Block nsfw on your main and have a nsfw alt account?
solarzones 3 points 3 years ago
Too many beans
starclaude 3 points 3 years ago
finally, this should be stickied forever, the most important feature out there
nothacking 2 points 3 years ago
My client has a block community option right from the feed.
Maruki_Hurakami 1 point 3 years ago
Thanks for this tip! Very helpful and def improved my experience.
BrainisfineIthink 1 point 3 years ago
Does anyone know how to do this from the thunder app? I can't seem to figure it out. It's easy enough on jerboa but I can't see an option on thunder.
Soullioness 2 points 3 years ago
I recommend lift off but it doesn't have gesture controls.
heavyboots 1 point 3 years ago
And yet what I really, really want is the ability to block instances… any idea if/when that is coming? I know it's a thing on Mastodon so it should be one here too, hopefully.
Silviecat44 0 points 3 years ago
This was me with all the communist memes
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YSK - for all the things that can make your life easier!
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must begin with YSK.
All posts must begin with YSK. If you're a Mastodon user, then include YSK after @youshouldknow. This is a community to share tips and tricks that will help you improve your life.
Rule 2- Your post body text must include the reason **WHY** YSK:
In your post's text body, you must include the reason "Why" YSK: It’s helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding non-YSK posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-YSK posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
If you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- The majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Rule 11- Posts must actually be true:
Disinformation, trolling, and being misleading will not be tolerated. Repeated or egregious attempts will earn you a ban. This also applies to filing reports: If you continually file false reports YOU WILL BE BANNED! We can see who reports what, and shenanigans will not be tolerated. We are not here to ban people who said something you don't like.
Rule 12- Linking directly to a video as a source is not acceptable.
Video only posts are responsible for an outsized portion of rules violations. Your post must contain text and meet the requirements of the previous rules.
Rule 13- If you file a report, include what specific rule is being violated and how.
Partnered Communities:
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
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