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

  • damnYouSun
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    1 year ago

    How is an instance going to let you hide communities that would have to be an app feature

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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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
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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

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