this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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Thank you for this, looks great!
Small questions, as this community is used by all instances new joiners, would it be possible to add those direct links under the fedecan guides? something like
Yes good call, I just edited them in. How does that look?
Great, thank you! Hopefully that will help a lot of new joiners, I've seen quite a few times those questions raised in the last few days
Don't no
There are two options for you
- Find an instance that defederates the instance you want to block, and use it as your main instance (e.g. sopuli.xyz https://sopuli.xyz/instances blocks hexbear.net)
- Switch to https://piefed.social/ which allows users to block all users from an instance at the user level
Which instance do you want to block?
Cool !