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[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some apps for Lemmy support blocking whole instances. Both Connect and Sync does.

Blocking hexbear has made my Lemmy experience much more pleasant

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that block the user comments too?

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Connect includes a setting called "Blocked Instances includes comments", which will filter all comments from all users from any of your blocked instances.

I don't think Sync has this option... and I don't know whether it filters them or not.

[–] PvtGetSum@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I'll have to give them a shot. I found jerboa first and really like it so far, but that might be the thing that makes me flip