It's called Filters not block, I can elipsis menu on this post, go to filters and filter your posts away
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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I have a filter button at the bottom of my ellipsis menu that lets me block the community, user, or instance.
This is good to know, ty.
Oh wow, I didn't realize filter == block ๐คฆ
It isn't strictly equivalent, as filter only works on Sync, whereas block is a Lemmy account feature. If you only use Sync though, filter is great.
To add to this, you can filter instances, but you can't (yet) block them.
That computes. I hope instance blocking comes to lemmy as a feature eventually ๐ค
I agree, I especially can't stand the communities who just dump entire archives of reddit posts. Would be nice to block those communities easily
In addition to what others have said about filtering certain posts/users from the ellipsis menu, you can also preemptively filter domains/instances/users/keywords in the settings: