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I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] Millie@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, it's begun to feel more hostile and shady. Pretty sure the Russian trolls are here, but hexchan ain't helping either. I'm waiting for a client side instance block feature. We really need it.

[–] kucuva@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I or anyone coudl write one up easily with userscripts, but I assume you're wanting server side block, because thats just UI stuff, you may not see it but the server is still sending you their junk, which is what you want to stop. something simple like: cat_name{'nousers':list, 'keywords':[list of block keywords], 'blockalgs': [list of knownblockfilters] } and you send this to the server to fetch only the stuff you want

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd like to block all users and posts from hexchan, exploding heads, and lemmygrad. I don't care if it sends the data as long as it blocks it from my UI.

What's that written in? Python? I need to learn Python.

[–] kucuva@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

if u dont care about receiving data, just learn HTML, css, and javascript. Take a look at userscripts and tampermonkey

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Best option I've found so far is Connect for Lemmy on Android to block instances.

[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Memmy has the feature to block instances client side, it doesn’t seem to be working in the latest version. The list keeps clearing out randomly. Sadly blocking a user causes my version to just crash as well.