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.

  • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    19 days 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
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      19 days 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
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        19 days 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
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          18 days 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.

          • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
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            18 days ago

            Voyager blocking behaves exactly the same as in jerboa, since both let the backend do it.

            As for markdown, what do you mean? Like a WYSIWYG editor? If so, Voyager prefers to write markdown directly. Fun fact: it was actually one of the main design goals of markdown!

            • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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              18 days ago

              Well, all I know is that Jerboa seems to hide comments from Hexbear dwellers while Voyager doesn’t.

              As for Markup, I tried posting a comment with a ~~…~~ marker in Voyager, and it showed up as ~~some text~~, whereas it correctly showed up as strikethrough text some text in Jerboa.

              • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
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                17 days ago

                The strikethrough you posted works fine in Voyager. If something specific doesn’t work, please post in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world (or better yet, a GitHub issue) so I can fix. :)

                Not sure what’s going on with hexbear, but I doubt they block those users in app. Maybe you’re using an instance that is defederated from them or something.

          • FoxyFerengi@lemm.eeEnglish
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            17 days ago

            Jerboa is developed by the main Lemmy devs, if I remember correctly. Nutonic (one of the two main devs) confirmed in that thread I linked above that they don’t have the option to block comments from users of blocked instances yet, because they are still working on it.

            Also, I’m surprised you can’t post in markdown, because I use markdown often when commenting in the daily game community.