A perfect "You've alerted the horde" moment
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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hexbear wants violent revolution and to them a nazi government they try to undermine is the best option for them
But if harris just as nazi what is the issue?
I blocked the instance with Sync, yet I can still see their users comments on other threads. Is there any way to completely block it all? Other than moving instances I guess.
The only ways I know of:
- move to a PieFed instance - which is amazing and worth doing anyway, just check it out and you'll see why:-)
- the Lemmy apps Sync and Connect, which you are asking about so it should work for you? I haven't tried Sync directly through so I'm not sure exactly how to make it happen, only that people said that it should work
- after the above, it gets a LOT more difficult from here, like writing a custom Ublock Origin filter rule or some such
- start up your own whole entire instance and defederate from all three, then suffer whatever problems have caused all of the top major instances to not do that for Lemmy.ml
Lemmy does not make it easy, and worse: the "instance filter" doesn't do anything close to what it sounds like, it only functions as a "community muting". Maybe Sync can do multiple things along these lines - look for a way to "block all users from an instance", maybe start with a user from it and click around for an option with that language.
Good luck - it's definitely possible (I've done it myself - PieFed makes it trivially easy, though there aren't as many app options for it, just Interstellar in alpha stage, though Thunder support is being tested right now, but currently very limited to a normal user, i.e. it's a custom fork of the code not yet merged back into main).
Huh, interesting thread. I think I poke.