Hi, I know it might sound a bit extreme but is there a way to block every users from specific instances ? Someting like “*@shitty.instance.com” ?

I know it’s possible to block instances, but you can still see comments from their users.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    153·
    21 hours ago

    I know it’s possible to block instances, but you can still see comments from their users.

    If you block an instance, all that instance’s users - posts, comments up/down votes - disappear completely. At least that has been my experience.

    • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      20 hours ago

      This isn’t true. You can still see comments from a user on a blocked instance if they are commenting outside that instance

      For example, this is a post on my home instance and I have hexbear blocked

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        That’s super-weird. I have Hexbear blocked as a whole and I never see anything Hexbear. Likewise, I have most Lemmygrad communities blocked piecemeal (but not the instance blocked whole - yet) and anything to do with those communities too are correctly disappeared.

        EDIT: After double-checking. OP is correct

        • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          I would wonder if your instance defederated them. The op and I are in the same instance, and it has a largely hands-off approach to defederation. (mostly only defederated instances that allow people/bots to share csam and similar content)

          • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            15 hours ago

            No. I chose my instance - SDF - precisely because they don’t defederate with any other instance and they let users do it for themselves.

            • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              15 hours ago

              Interesting. Can you see this comment by Kieselguhr@ hexbear.net assuming you don’t separately have them blocked? https://lemm.ee/comment/20182920

              I chose a different user who commented in that same thread I referenced above. I definitely have that instance blocked because I just double checked my filters

              • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                15 hours ago

                Oh damn yeah, I do:

                It must be a new bug then, because it wasn’t like that before. I know because I explicitely checked when I blocked Hexbear.

                Also, I realize that I don’t see the commenters’ instance. So it’s easy to miss they’re from a blocked instance.

                • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  15 hours ago

                  Settings - > Appearance -> scroll to the bottom - > toggle “Show user instance”

                  Edit to add: hexbear specifically only recently came back to life. They were out of commission for a couple months because the person who held the certificate or however you call it for hosting the server disappeared. There was some drama about the instance name going up for auction afterwards. They are back to Lemmy as of a month or so ago

                  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                    1·
                    3 hours ago

                    FWIW I have gone back to Jerboa: it works as expected wrt blocked instances and users, but also it lets me post in Markdown - something Voyager doesn’t seem to do, and I never noticed before.

    • tatann@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      Thanks for the answer, so either I have a bug or I’ve blocked the wrong instance (with a close name)

      Edit: I’ve checked, the instance is correctly spelled, I’ll try clearing cache / reinstalling