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Another reddit.world community got mad at me for saying "death to US" and now I'm banned. That's fine! But why can't I block them now? I am forced to see their posts every time I go to /all and can't comment or vote, so am effectively forced to view content without any ability to interact.

I don't want to see their posts and should be able to block them from my /all feed

Here look! When I'm not banned there's a clear option to block the community:

But after being banned I now can't block the community, I'm forced to keep seeing it in my feed!

SOLVED: From the user settings page there is a tab for Blocks next to the tab for Settings, and you can manually search for the community you wish to block in a search bar. That worked, even if the UI on the community page was messed up by the block message.

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[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you able to block it from your user settings page? There's a tab for adding communities/users to your blocklist.

I use it whenever I want to block a community, but I don't want to visit their page.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Oh hey, it worked! Thanks!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

? How are you accessing Lemmy? Works for me in Boost.

Use the ". . ." menu in the upper right, then "Community Info", then the ". . ." menu again. Block Community.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm just using the browser version. I guess I could try an app.

I added screenshots to show what I mean in the OP

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, that DEFINITELY seems like an oversight. The entire community control block is replaced with a "You Are Banned" message.

There is an alternate browser UI called Photon, try this:

https://photon.lemmy.world/

https://photon.lemmy.world/c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

lemmy.ml seems unsupported, and that's my instance of choice

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

:( I tried! I messaged our admins to see if it's a lemmy bug or a lemmy.world bug.

Edit Looks like a Lemmy bug, but I can confirm it does work in Boost, I bet if you set it up there, the setting will follow you.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

That's because they linked photon.lemmy.world... this is why I was hesitant to allow instances to link photon to them.

Anyway, you can use https://phtn.app/ (the official URL, like vger.app) to use any instance.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Glad you figured it out! I looked into the button behavior, here's what I found:

It sends a JSON request to the API endpoint:

https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/block

With a Referer of:

https://lemmy.world/c/nottheonion

Knowing that, but not knowing the exact JSON call, I don't see how there's a way to spoof it. So I'm glad you found an alternate method!