Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities or I’ll never find real interesting communities hiding on the 10th page of top feeds. This lack of functionality could cause the top feeds to stay trash permanently and drive away users. Especially when new apps are constantly appearing, client side hides are more or less useless as I switch between apps.

Reddit post hide features are fairly performant because they quietly expire after some period of time. They stay in your “hidden” list but actually will start showing in the results again if somehow that content is still visible. You can see this on super slow or abandoned subreddits if you hide every and come back a month later.

Reddit community blocking features have always sucked with the serverside limit of 100. Seems even more dire in Lemmy when the same shitposting communities spring up on different hosts

  • FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This feature already exists. When I block a community in an Android app and go to the website at sh.itjust.works, and look at my Preferences > Blocks, I see the community I just blocked in my app, even if they are on a remote instance.

    So, I guess I don’t understand the problem.

  • Quetzacoatl@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Subscribe to the communities you like, then switch to “Subscribed” view, just like on Reddit. The front page is what it is, an honest /r/all – on Reddit it was mostly porn, and after some retooling mostly low-effort meme subs. But that’s exactly what “Subscribed” is there for!!

    At least you’re not advocating to harshly monitor/ban/disallow community creation, like some others already did, basically treating the whole instance like an uber-strict subreddit of its own.

    Instead, it’s easy: Subscribe. Then switch to Subscribed. If you want more communities, look at a list, or switch to All again.

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      The way I used Reddit was to do exactly this, but also with the extra step to heavily curate All and Poular by blocking communities that came up all the time that I had no plans to subscribe to. This turned my version of All and Popular into a feed of mostly communities I’ve never seen before and not just a wall of meme spam

      The solution turned out to be that wefwef is missing the block community feature so I now have my exact workflow over on Memmy

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          I see nothing wrong with taking good, useful features from Reddit and making them available. It won’t make Lemmy Reddit, it just makes Lemmy better.

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    1 year ago

    This is what the Block feature is for. Block the communities.

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      It’s not immediately apparent in the interface like it might have been in other communities using third-party software. (It would be really nice to access the feature using the kebab menu on the home page listing page, e.g. this: Screenshot of an expanded kebab (dot dot dot) menu on the front page with a 'block community' option added.)

      But at least on sh.itjust.works, you can access the feature through the Settings link:

      Screenshot of the expanded 'Username' menu, showing the link to user settings

      … buried under your username menu, and then by clicking the ‘Blocked’ tab.

      'Blocked' tab

      I hope that’s helpful to someone else like me who wanted this feature too and didn’t realize it existed!

      EDIT: It’s also actually a lot easier to find if you click into the community; there’s a big ol’ ‘Block community’ button:

      Screenshot of the community display page for 'Lemmy Plugins' showing a large red 'Block community' button.

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    How, in 2023, are we still doing the “omg so randumb!!!1!!eleven holds up spork” style “humor”? Shit is so tired.

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      Because there are kids on the internet now who are the same age as we were when we thought that was funny

    • Disaster@sh.itjust.works
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      That’s a matter of perspective. It’s new to new users and old to you. That doesn’t make it any less irritating to wade through, but that’s the curse of age.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    Then pick an instance that lets you do this? Why is this rocket science for some?

    You’re going from app to app and complain the app settings doesn’t automatically follow you to the next app? Did I get that right?

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        On your Lemmy instance site (i.e. not in an app) click the sidebar for a community you’re not subscribed to and press block community

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        What are you talking about? You’re using the same instance as me. If I can block communities. So can you.

        If you’re complaining that some app don’t have that feature added to it. Then either improve it, write your own, submitt feedback to the developed, or pick another app.

        • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah of course you can block communities but you can’t block entire instances which of course is what we’re talking about.

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            No one was talking about that until you mention it now.

            “Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities

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              All else aside, it would be nice if a “block instance” feature existed as well though.

  • mr_washee_washee@sh.itjust.works
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    thats why effort (github contribution) should be focused on lemmy web first. then when site is solid u can build apps on top of it, and u wouldnt need to think much of features later since web is already the inspiration