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Blocking/Hiding Instances At the User Level
(beehaw.org)
An open-ended community for asking and answering various questions! Permissive of asks, AMAs, and OOTLs (out-of-the-loop) alike.
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Was finding it annoying too, so instead of scrolling and blocking things as I happened upon them, I pulled up lists of things to block by searching for keywords of stuff I know I'm disinterested in.
It isn't ideal but it made it a lot faster and less fiddly. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible yet to search by instance name, so I couldn't use this method to pull up a list of every community on instances with a high prevalence of stuff I don't want to see.
For keeping porn out, go into settings and deselect "show NSFW content". I don't think Beehaw has NSFW content, but this setting should keep a lot of it out of your "All" feed (if it has been correctly marked).
I'm considering just making a script to get a list of communities from an instance and submit them to my block list automatically. Heavily rate limited, of course.