Am I correct in assuming that blocking a community stops it from showing in your feed? I see a lot of posts from communities in languages I don’t speak and would like them to not show up on my feed. So I blocked a few, but I’m not 100% sure if what I did has the intended effect.
(Maybe it’s just because to me, blocking a person seems like something I wouldn’t do to someone who hasn’t done anything wrong, haha XD)
Just to be clear, I think someone doesn’t have to have done something wrong for you to block them. The block list is an important self-care tool and you don’t need a reason to look out for yourself. <3
Good point! Haha. The first time I saw that option I immediately clicked it but then suddenly I was thinking I wouldn’t just block some random person without a good reason and then my mind went: it’s not the same as REPORTING a community, is it?
I blocked a handful of communities because I don’t care to see their content, but nothing wrong with it. You do you.
you can block communities/users or even instances (on kbin). this is one approach, and works like a blacklist
or you can subscribe to some communities and set Subscribed/Hot as default feed in your account. this is more like whitelist
i suspect the intended approach is the latter, because you can see communities you usually don’t without unblocking them if you follow links or search for them specifically
It seems to do just that. On that topic, is there a way to see which communities you have blocked?
ETA: I found it, log into your Lemmy website and click username in top right corner, Settings, Blocks tab.
